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In affective empathy, a person experiences elements of feeling that are similar to another’s emotions. It is considered a more automatic process (in comparison to cognitive empathy) that originates in part from mimicry, in which a person mirrors another’s expression or physical demeanor.
References
Goetz, J. L., & Simon-Thomas, E. (2017). The landscape of compassion: Definitions and scientific approaches. The Oxford handbook of compassion science, 1, 3-15.
Synonyms:
Emotional empathy