Empathy v. sympathy: Both involve sensitivity to another’s emotions. Empathy involves feeling the same emotion as another, whereas sympathy involves responding to another’s emotion with no emotion or a different emotion.

A woman sees a sad child crying. If she feels sad, she is empathizing; if she offers to help or feels anxious, she is sympathizing.

when one observes an action as when

one makes the action

More empathy is directed at members of one’s social group (in group) than at members of other social groups (out groups).