perspective taking
Seeing others' viewpoints
Perspective taking is the mental act of imagining how a situation appears from another person's point of view, considering their thoughts, feelings, or circumstances rather than one's own.
It is a core component of empathy and is emphasized in psychology, education, and conflict resolution as a skill that can be developed.
Good perspective taking helps you understand why someone reacted the way they did.
The term is sometimes hyphenated as perspective-taking, especially when used as an adjective.
- mentalizingInferring others' mental states
- theory of mindAttributing mental states to others
- mind readingPerceiving others' thoughts directly
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
child development · empathy · walking in someone's shoes · compassion · seeing both sides · moral development · negotiation · reasoning · big picture thinking · stepping back · maturity · interpretation · inference · problem-solving · interpersonal skills · emotional intelligence · understanding · conceptualization
- child developmentbaby, toddler, newborn, infancy, milestones
- mental processesthinking, think, reasoning, cognition, pondering
- social skillssocial skills, conversation, sharing, helping, listening
- empathyempathy, sympathy, compassion, kindness, understanding
- spatial skillsmental rotation, spatial awareness, spatial memory, depth perception, mental mapping
- Audience Analysistarget audience, demographics, engagement, relatability, empathy
perspective takingself-centeredness
Preoccupation with one's own interests
egocentrism · self-absorption · narcissism · self-focus · solipsism
perspective takingcallousness
Cruel emotional indifference
indifference · disregard · apathy · cold-heartedness · emotional detachment
perspective takingclosed-mindedness
Refusal to consider other views
narrow-mindedness · rigidity · dogmatism · inflexibility · tunnel vision
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