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EMPATHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Understanding and entering into another's feelings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("empathy" is a kind of...):
fellow feeling; sympathy (sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish))
Derivation:
empathetic (showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states)
empathise; empathize (be understanding of)
Context examples:
Participants experiencing better empathy also tended to have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, although this was not statistically significant.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
Empathy has two parts: the ability to recognize another person’s thoughts and feelings, and the ability to respond with an appropriate emotion to someone else’s thoughts and feelings.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
Practitioner empathy may also reflect the doctor’s listening ability and the trust of the patient in disclosing what is really wrong so that it can be addressed.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
The first part is called ‘cognitive empathy’ and the second part ‘affective empathy’.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
In a healthcare context, empathy refers to care that incorporates understanding of the patient perspective, shared decision making between patient and practitioner, and consideration of the broader context in which illness is experienced.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
It also showed that, on average, autistic people score lower on the EQ, and that this was because they struggle with cognitive empathy, even though their affective empathy may be intact.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
Researchers at Cambridge followed up 867 individuals across 49 general practices in the UK as part of the ADDITION-Cambridge study to examine the association between primary care practitioner (GP and nurse) empathy and incidence of cardiovascular disease events (such as heart attack and stroke) or death.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
In a new study, the Cambridge team, working with the genetics company 23andMe and a team of international scientists, report the results of the largest genetic study of empathy using information from more than 46,000 23andMe customers.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
Patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes are at a lower risk of early death if they have a doctor who they describe as showing empathy towards them, a new study from the University of Cambridge has found.
(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)
This implies that the sex difference in empathy is the result of other non-genetic biological factors, such as prenatal hormone influences, or non-biological factors such as socialisation, both of which also differ between the sexes.
(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)
