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empathy  

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  • Empathy means to feel into another person's biological processes, perceptions, emotional states, and their kinds and forms of consciousness in order to assess their feelings. Further, empathy means not only assessing another's affective communication, but using one's assessments in order to be eventually helpful to another person's communication development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Empathy]

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