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— Martin Hoffman"An affective response more appropriate to another's situation than one's own."
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Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone.
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