empathic


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Synonyms for empathic

cognizant of and comprehending the needs, feelings, problems, and views of others

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Synonyms for empathic

showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

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Helpful people are empathic. In short, readily taking the perspective of others and feeling other people's distress makes you more likely to take responsibility for the welfare of others and act to help them.
When I told him that the best leaders are empathic leaders, he challenged me on the spot.
Empathic communication is a necessary and essential skill for doctors, and should be taught in all medical schools.
There was also a correlation for compassion training-related increases in visual preference for suffering with decreases in regions sensitive to valence and empathic distress, spanning the anterior insula and orbitofrontal cortex; the opposite effect was seen in the reappraisal group.
Create the Vision of what an empathic culture is - What are the problems of our customers that we can solve?
Our approach is very much in line with Iain McGilchrist's (2009) account of the divide between the empathic and epistemically obsessive aspects of our minds.
The researchers hypothesized that the degree to which spouses showed empathic, solicitous, and punishing responses in response to their partners' pain would be associated with the partners' physical well-being over time.
Ashar has firsthand experience with empathic distress at home.
It turns out, however, that a serious shortcoming exists in our capacity to experience empathy with others, which is that too much empathy can lead to something called empathic distress.
Our objective was to examine prefrontal cortical functioning (PCF) and empathic abilities in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE).
However, the patient's functional deficits and the caregiver's mood states can impact the caregiver's motivation to engage in empathic responses toward patients.
Ultimately, this may result in reduced empathic tendencies in nurses.