Give me a breakdown of the definition of affective or emotional empathy.
What are the various types of affective or emotional empathy?
Give Examples of each type of affective or emotional empathy.
Give 2 verified quotes that describes each type of affective or emotional empathy.
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How do contemporary psychological theories conceptualize and differentiate the subtypes of emotional empathy?
Contemporary theories conceptualize emotional empathy as having two primary forms (automatic/affective and cognitive), with various researchers proposing additional subdivisions within the affective domain.
Abstract
Contemporary psychological theories define emotional empathy as an affective process of resonating with others’ emotions. Many studies distinguish two primary forms: an automatic, affective component—often labeled emotional contagion or affect sharing—and a cognitive component defined by perspective‐taking and theory of mind. Some authors further differentiate the affective domain. For example, Coplan (2011) delineates three variants (emotional contagion, pseudo‐empathy, and empathy proper), while Wondra and Ellsworth (2015) identify five distinct processes (including mimicry, classical conditioning, and various associative mechanisms). Buck and Xu (2020) focus on differentiating emotional from cognitive empathy by contrasting judgment of emotion with inference-based perspective taking.
Neuroimaging and lesion studies associate emotional empathy with activation in regions such as the mirror neuron system, inferior frontal gyrus, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate cortex, whereas cognitive empathy links to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal junction, and medial temporal structures. In developmental terms, studies show that automatic affective resonance emerges earlier than the later-developing cognitive, perspective-based capacities. Integrative models underscore dynamic interactions between these affective and cognitive processes, with theoretical tensions centering on the boundaries and operational definitions of additional affective subtypes.