cognitive empathy
Perspective-taking skill
Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand another person's perspective or mental state without necessarily feeling what they feel.
It's intellectual rather than emotional—recognizing that someone is sad and why, even if you don't share their sadness.
A good negotiator uses cognitive empathy to anticipate the other side's concerns.
Distinguished from affective empathy, which involves actually sharing another's emotions.
- perspective-takingUnderstanding another's viewpoint
- mind-readingPerceiving others' thoughts directly
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- mentalizingInferring others' mental states
- mental simulationImagined rehearsal of events
insight · attunement · reading the room · interpreting · anticipating · mirroring · detachment · analytical · calculating · inference · decoding · perceiving · awareness · psychological · intellectual · observation · predicting · manipulation
cognitive empathyegocentrism
Viewing all through oneself
self-absorption · solipsism · tunnel vision · obliviousness · self-centeredness
cognitive empathycallousness
Cruel emotional indifference
emotional detachment · empathy deficit · ruthlessness · heartlessness · apathy
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