JakobHåkansson Eklund

February 2021

Highlights

  • Previous authors claim that there is far from consensus on how empathy should be defined.

  • This article shows that there is a movement toward consensus on how empathy should be defined.

  • The analysis resulted in four themes in most empathy conceptualizations.

  • In empathy, the empathizer understands, feels and shares another person’s world with self-other differentiation.


Final definition: "Empathy is to understand, feel, and share what someone else feels, with self-other differentiation. "