Imagining Quotes

Give me examples where cognitive empathy is defined as 'imagining' or 'imagination'. The word  imagining should be in the example. Give a link to the source as well. 

(x) Simon Baron-Cohen (Clinical Psychologist and Autism Researcher)

“Empathy for me has at least two major components: Cognitive empathy is the ability to put yourself into someone else’s shoes and to imagine their thoughts and feelings. It is the recognition element. Affective empathy is the drive to respond with an appropriate emotion to someone else’s thoughts and feelings. It is the response element. One without the other is not really empathy – to empathise you need both elements."

This definition emphasizes the imaginative process of understanding another person's internal state.
Exchange with Simon Baron-Cohen

(x) Greater Good Science Center (UC Berkeley)
“Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.”

This definition underscores the role of imagination in understanding others' mental states.
Greater Good Science Center – Empathy Quiz

(x) Jean Decety (Neuroscientist)

“With cognitive empathy, the individual is thought to use perspective-taking processes to imagine or project into the place of the other in order to understand what she/he is feeling.”

Decety emphasizes the cognitive processes involved in imagining another's emotional experience.
PMC – The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans

( ) Oxford English Dictionary
"The ability to imagine and understand the thoughts, perspective, and emotions of another person.”

This definition highlights imagination as central to cognitive empathy.
Oxford Reference – Empathy

These definitions collectively underscore that cognitive empathy involves an imaginative process of mentally placing oneself in another's situation to understand their internal experiences. 

( ) ScienceDirect Topics
“The cognitive component of empathy overlaps with the construct of perspective taking, the ability to put oneself into the mind of another individual and imagine what that person is thinking or feeling. By testing all four constructs together, the results may reveal any interrelationship between the constructs. ” 

ScienceDirect Topics – Cognitive-Perspective Taking

(x ) Reniers, Renate etal
"Cognitive empathy is defined as the ability to construct a working model of the emotional states of others and importantly entails the comprehension of another person’s emotional experience. This can be achieved by actively imagining what another person may be feeling or by intuitively putting oneself in another person’s position.”

Frontiers in Psychiatry – Cognitive Empathy and Perspective Taking

( ) Indeed Career Guide
"People who actively practice cognitive empathy typically imagine themselves in the other person's position and speculate on the emotions they might feel or actions they might take, given the same circumstances.”

Indeed – Cognitive vs. Emotional EmpathyIndeed

Here is a list of quotes where empathy is explicitly defined or described as an act involving imagining, imagination, or the process of imagining:

"Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like."
Sonya Huber2

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
J.K. Rowling1

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."
Susan Sarandon36

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley1

"To empathize is to imagine walking in another’s shoes, seeing through their eyes, and feeling with their heart."
— Roman Krznaric (Explicitly uses "imagine.")
Source: Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It

"Empathy is the imaginative act of stepping into another’s mind to understand their joys and sorrows."
— Simon Baron-Cohen (Adapted from his work on empathy and psychology.)
Source: The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

"Empathy requires us to imagine the world as others see it, to feel what they feel."
— Jeremy Rifkin (From his writings on empathic civilization.)
Source: The Empathic Civilization

“We are beginning to learn that an empathic moment requires both intimate engagement and a measure of detachment. If our feelings completely spill over into another's feelings or their feelings overwhelm our psyche, we lose a sense of self and the ability to imagine the other as if they were us. Empathy is a difficult balancing act. One has to be open to experiencing another's plight as if it were one's own but not be engulfed by it, at the expense of drowning out the self's ability to be a unique and separate being. Empathy requires a porous boundary between I and thou that allows the identity of two beings to mingle in a shared mental space.

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”
Jeremy Rifkin