About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Psychological pain, Empathy, Max Scheler's Concept of Ressentiment, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Scheler's Stratification of Emotional Life, Emotions in the workplace, Music and emotion, Emotion in animals, Affect infusion model, Sociology of emotions, Catharsis, Affect display, Evolution of emotion, Jealousy in religion, Bounded emotionality, Regulation of emotion, Emotion classification, Affective neuroscience, Empathic concern, Compassion fatigue, Limbic regulation, Microexpression, Limbic resonance, Emotional thought method, Group affective tone, Self-conscious emotions, Empathic accuracy, Emotional conflict, Comfort food, Acedia, Alertness, Somatic markers hypothesis, Negative affectivity, Two factor theory of emotion, Fanaticism, Aesthetic emotions, Conceptual-act model of emotion, Sentimentality, Limbic revision, James-Lange theory, Les Greenberg, Attractiveness, Mal du siecle, Emotional self-regulation, Personal distress, Tantrum, Affect consciousness, Emotional selection, Emotional expression, Valence, Emotional aperture, Radical compassion, Affective Events Theory, Cannon-Bard theory, Subtle expressions, Calmness, Connectedness to nature scale, List of emotional intelligence topics, Anthropopathy, Awkwardness, Kinesthetic sympathy, Emotional responsivity. Excerpt: Empathy is the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) that are being experienced by another sentient or semi-sentient being. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they are able to feel compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by E.B. Titchener as an attempt to translate the German word "Einfuhlungsvermogen," a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by Theodor Lipps. It was later re-translated (Germanized) into the German languag...
