Why don't you want it ? I think INTP people have potential to have it , but in a selective way. Too much is not good, not enough is not good either(german people at the time of Hitler for example !).I know I might appear as a feely INTP, but without decent empathy is life no good enough.@WALKYRIA, I wonder if it is a evolutionary predecessor of ESP. I do not think I have very much of it, and I don't think I want any.
I don't believe the @ sign works unless you copy the handle.@Wolf18. @BigApplePi, I think I understand, but I am a bit unclear on some things:
Emotions are tricky things. If you are not sure of your own emotions you through identification might confuse your own with the other and get all mixed up. I have to know where I am at to make a clear cut empathy. If you are suffering I can feel your pain but have to stand back and realize it's not me. If I happen to already have the same pain at that time, I'm not sure. My own pain may overpower the chance for clear empathy.1. if you're feeling empathy, do you feel like you are someone else, or do you feel like you are two people (yourself and the person you are feeling empathy towards) at once?
2. Do you just feel their emotions, or do you feel their emotions mixed with your emotions? I would assume that you could only feel one person's emotions at a time, so therefore I would conclude that you cannot feel any of your own emotions (aside from empathy) when you are experiencing empathy.
Why bother, in that case? Why not just stick to your own emotions?
I don't believe the @ sign works unless you copy the handle.
Emotions are tricky things. If you are not sure of your own emotions you through identification might confuse your own with the other and get all mixed up. I have to know where I am at to make a clear cut empathy. If you are suffering I can feel your pain but have to stand back and realize it's not me. If I happen to already have the same pain at that time, I'm not sure. My own pain may overpower the chance for clear empathy.
I'm more in favor of rationality but may desire to help someone. In that case my desire is under control and I will engage in empathy. But if I'm already in trouble, there is no room.
Good question.
@WALKYRIA. As I said to wolf, the @ fails to notify unless you copy the name.@ Big Appel Pi: well I also thought it was some sort of feeling; but some class mates argued that it was not about feeling but understanding the emotions of the other.
I was surprized by what they said, but again they might be aspergers people !
@WALKYRIA. As I said to wolf, the @ fails to notify unless you copy the name.
Ok, so what does it mean?em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee]
noun
1. the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
Psychopath don't totally lack empathy; they lack the affective empathy. But have cognitive empathy(related to the theory of mind). autist spectrum people lack cognitive but not emotional empathy. It's the dichotomy that I wasnt aware of.
I think it's important to divide empathy in it's many components.
Now the question is, can one develop empathy? how? growing mirror neurons?
Psychopath don't totally lack empathy; they lack the affective empathy. But have cognitive empathy(related to the theory of mind). autist spectrum people lack cognitive but not emotional empathy. It's the dichotomy that I wasnt aware of.
I think it's important to divide empathy in it's many components.
Now the question is, can one develop empathy? how? growing mirror neurons?
Psychopath don't totally lack empathy; they lack the affective empathut have cognitive empathy(related to the theory of mind). autist spectrum people lack cognitive but not emotional empathy. It's the dichotomy that I wasnt aware of.
I think it's important to divide empathy in it's many components.
Now the question is, can one develop empathy? how? growing mirror neurons?