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Understanding Others’ Feelings: What Is Empathy and Why Do We Need It?

By Pascal Molenberghs — 2017

Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others. It is a construct of multiple components, each of which is associated with its own brain network. There are three ways of looking at empathy.

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