Cognitive or Emotional Empathy?
so cognitive empathy is understanding a person’s emotions right so like I understand that this person feels really angry because their husband cheated on them I understand that this person feels really resentful because somebody who wasn’t as good as them got promoted right it’s a getting it right understand you look at a movie you don’t know these people so you understand why they did what they did in a way it’s almost not only under understanding feelings maybe even understanding motivations but it is it’s like a kind of a getting it it’s a very intellectual kind of approach to empathy and the problem with cognitive empathy to me is for too many people it sort of passes for empathy right to me it’s just it’s intellectual right and I think people fall for well they said they get how I feel like I now like show me how that that’s got to be backed up with some emotion and that’s where we get into emotional empathy which is really sort of entering a feeling space like oh my
Dr. Ramani explains the definition of cognitive empathy and why it’s important to know how it differs from emotional empathy.
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42 Comments
i only "Feel" when i see visual distress.
Ok
But incredible, unbelivable stupidity of narcs…can it be explained?
I shifted to cognitive empathy when people started taking advantage of emotional empathy. I let them Almost suck the life force out of me.
I do dumb things and are not willing to learn or grow but I want you to feel sorry for me.
Very loving man but I have stuff to accomplish I’m not here to waste my time on childish behaviors, especially for proud independent adults who think wisdom doesn’t matter or exist. We are only as strong as our weakest link. Feelings shouldn’t lead the council. Just one voice on the board of directors in your mind. You have an out of control council member that doesn’t give others a fair chance to share their perspective. Kinda of like politics at this point, which isn’t a good thing. You’ve been programmed but you better make sure it’s the game you want to play your whole life depends on it.
I think i might not understand emotional empathy. I’ve always felt different and have had a hard time to feel peoples emotions, people usually say that I’m emotionless. But I wish in a way that I could have does feelings too
I think you might greatly benefit from studying Marshall Rosenberg's work.
High cognitive empathy naturally allows high narcissism
I’ll never get back this minute of my life I spent watching this.
Think for your victim a great read on this topic
a moment of awe
I have both. It sucks at times
What about if I feel the weight of the world on myself? I pray for everyone, and animals and wish I was wonder woman to help God. Found out about the evil during covid. Cried every day. I wish i could save babies, children, animals and homeless people and abused people. What kind of Empathy is this? 😢. I have a associates in psych. And have worked in mental health, and for the elderly. I help people and animals 🙏
Emotional empathy involves a deep emotional connection, but it doesn’t equate to intellectual understanding. For instance, crying doesn’t change the fact that you’ve lost a loved one, nor does it necessarily help you or the person grieving. This distinction emphasizes the difference between emotional and cognitive empathy, and it is often a lack of intellectual perspective that complicates emotional responses. In this sense, cognitive empathy can be considered more advanced and useful than the more primitive emotional empathy. Striking a balance between both forms of empathy can lead to more constructive support and understanding in difficult situations.
Hating empathy was a way the Nazi's convicted their public it was ok to hate and hurt other people.
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I fell and gouged the skin off my arm in several places. Took picture and when I texted my brother, he responded with a blunted and simple "Ok" …..just an "Ok"??? which felt weird and strangely disconnected. Then he texted, "Bactine" as if what I needed was a treatment suggestion……smh
Cognitive dissonance.
Completely ignoring emotion.
so emotional empathy is sympathy?
we are so complex you guys will never know 🫡
What’s the difference between cognitive empathy and sympathy then?
SHE'S TOO JUDGEMENTAL FOR A PSYCHOLOGIST
Wait until she finds out about logical empathy
Doctor,, YOU are flushing,,, and the person infront of you,, knows psychos more rhan you do
Empathy and conpassion needs to be directed to Isreal, as they don't understand Empathy or would not be destroying a population. I dont understand what Isreal is doing and are brainwashed and lack Empathy and conpassion, so why do they think, they have the right to do what they're doing. Its not about me ,its about innocence lives taken away by evil and they're not getting it are they ? Why ?
I'm really on that dr Ramini level can totally relate to everything she saying and like we had the same parents and same experience through the lense of male and female lenses but soo relatable with your view and perspective 😮! Just a wealth of knowledge that very few can even comprehend! 😊❤ 🫂 ✝️!
What makes me uneasy about the videos of these two is that I get the feeling he doesn’t care that much for her and yet he keeps participating. Something about that doesn’t sit right with me.
If you're an empath you feel it in your heart. You can actually feel their pain. You can die of a broken heart too. If you're blocked in your heart chakra you can't feel like normal people. Emotions are blocked. The pain is stored in the body.
Thank you so much for clarifying this subject, I was very confused and not many people explain it so well like you did. Appreciate ❤.
I hate being an empath period.. even if you think you’re genuine someone would think you’re being negative!! 🤬 your feelings
Don't most of us just have the 2. It's the same as when someone is killed within your family VS when someone is killed outside your family…?
The closer something is/happens, the more it will get under your skin, the more emotion it evokes.
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Why make everything so complicated cognitive empathy is sympathy while emotional empathy is empathy, it’s been defined over 100 yrs ago now 2025 we have more variations of an empath than possible problems one can be empathetic towards. Nowadays we feel we need to name and compartmentalize varying intensities of one thing, to what end? No two humans are alike so why not have 9 billion different variations of empathy? Personally I’m empathetic to the point of pathetic
The so called psychology expert doesn't understand her own field.
Suddenly everyone in the comments is an expert in understanding human behavior.
Yes I am emotional empath and it's so dangerous especially if you dont have boundaries
You need to shut down your shakaras too as you dont want to take on their physical pain
Cognitive empathy is called sympathy lol
Why dignify someone's feelings of resentment? I don't get that. Empathy and resentment shouldn't even be in the same conversation. The majority of people are already easily confused over simple things.
empathy is empathy, no difference between cognitive or emotiional.
If you dont feel or can feel what some one else feels, you can not understand what their going thru. No matter what.
The only way you can truly understand another person, is when you experienced the same as the person before you. Which an empath can do. With his/her emotions.
Otherwise its just a guessing game.
The cognitive, our thinking, is what analyses the feeling/experience.
You cannot think a feeling, only experience.
So if a persons not an empath and they don’t have cognitive empathy do they have a title? Besides slow, I figured cognitive empathy is just common sense
Where is the full interview?
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They are hunting empaths so they can do terrible things in this world and have a tool that absorbs all their negative energy (the empath) and they don’t have to balance their sins in the eyes of the God.
Our culture is too empathetic right now
It sounds like cognitive empathy is just a different way to call sympathy?