Baron-Cohen, Simon
“Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand another person’s mental state, their thoughts, feelings, or intentions, often referred to as perspective-taking or theory of mind.”
Baron-Cohen, Simon, and Sally Wheelwright. “The Empathy Quotient: An Investigation of Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism, and Normal Sex Differences.” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 34, no. 2 (2004): 163–75.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:JADD.0000022607.19833.00
Brown, Sarah J.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073914558466
Cherry, Kendra
“Cognitive empathy involves knowing how other people think and feel, allowing you to understand their perspective and mental state.”
Cherry, Kendra. “Empathy: Definition, Types, and Tips for Practicing.” Verywell Mind, July 2, 2024.
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562
Cuff, Benjamin M. P.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073914558466
Davis, Mark H.
“Cognitive empathy, as measured by the perspective-taking subscale of the IRI, refers to the ability to adopt the point of view of others and understand their feelings and thoughts.”
Davis, Mark H. “A Multidimensional Approach to Individual Differences in Empathy.” JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology 10 (1980): 85.
https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/davis.pdf
Decety, Jean
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980850/
Dziobek, Isabel
“Cognitive empathy entails the comprehension of another person’s emotional experience, achieved by actively imagining what another person may be feeling.”
Eyler, Lisa T., and Isabel Dziobek. “Distinct Neural Correlates of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy in Older Adults.” Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 232, no. 1 (2014): 42–50.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394187/
Eisenberg, Nancy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00991640
Eyler, Lisa T.
“Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand another person’s mental state, relying on cognitive processes such as perspective-taking and inhibitory control.”
Eyler, Lisa T., and Isabel Dziobek. “Distinct Neural Correlates of Emotional and Cognitive Empathy in Older Adults.” Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 232, no. 1 (2014): 42–50.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394187/
Goleman, Daniel
“Cognitive empathy means exercising a mental understanding of the person’s experience, sometimes called perspective-taking, to know how they feel and think.”
Williams, Jennifer A. “The Three Kinds of Empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, and Compassionate.” Heartmanity, April 19, 2018.
https://blog.heartmanity.com/the-three-kinds-of-empathy-cognitive-emotional-compassionate
Hodges, Sara D.
“Cognitive empathy, also known as empathic accuracy, involves having more complete and accurate knowledge about the contents of another person’s mind, including how the person feels.”
Hodges, Sara D., and Michael W. Myers. “Empathy.” In Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, edited by Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs, 1:296–98. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
https://lesley.edu/article/the-psychology-of-emotional-and-cognitive-empathy
Hogan, Robert
“Cognitive empathy is the intellectual or imaginative apprehension of another’s condition or state of mind, focusing on understanding their perspective.”
Stueber, Karsten R. “Empathy.” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford University, 2008.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/
Howat, Douglas J.
“Cognitive empathy refers to the ability to understand another individual’s emotional state or perspective, distinct from feeling their emotions.”
Cuff, Benjamin M. P., Sarah J. Brown, Laura Taylor, and Douglas J. Howat. “Empathy: A Review of the Concept.” Emotion Review 8, no. 2 (2016): 144–53.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073914558466
Jankowiak-Siuda, Kamila
“Cognitive empathy refers to our ability to take the cognitive perspective of other people, which helps us to understand their experiences, intentions, and needs.”
Jankowiak-Siuda, Kamila. “How We Empathize with Others: A Neurobiological Perspective.” Medical Science Monitor 17, no. 1 (2011): RA18–RA24.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560761/
Myers, Michael W.
“Cognitive empathy, or empathic accuracy, involves understanding another person’s experience by imagining oneself in that person’s situation, maintaining a distinction between self and other.”
Hodges, Sara D., and Michael W. Myers. “Empathy.” In Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, edited by Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs, 1:296–98. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
https://lesley.edu/article/the-psychology-of-emotional-and-cognitive-empathy
Reniers, Renate L. E.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9553460/
Shamay-Tsoory, Simone G.
“Cognitive empathy is a system that enables perspective-taking and understanding of another’s mental state, distinct from emotional empathy.”
Shamay-Tsoory, Simone G., Judith Aharon-Peretz, and Daniella Perry. “Two Systems for Empathy: A Double Dissociation between Emotional and Cognitive Empathy in Inferior Frontal Gyrus versus Ventromedial Prefrontal Lesions.” Brain 132, no. 3 (2009): 617–27.
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/132/3/617/283741
Taylor, Laura
“Cognitive empathy is the ability to recognize and understand another person’s mental state, often through perspective-taking, without necessarily sharing their emotions.”
Cuff, Benjamin M. P., Sarah J. Brown, Laura Taylor, and Douglas J. Howat. “Empathy: A Review of the Concept.” Emotion Review 8, no. 2 (2016): 144–53.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073914558466
Thompson, Nicholas M.
“Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand another’s emotional state, often measured through perspective-taking tasks in empathy research.”
Thompson, Nicholas M., Carien M. van Reekum, and Bhismadev Chakrabarti. “Cognitive and Affective Empathy Relate Differentially to Emotion Regulation.” Affective Science 2 (2021): 384–96.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42761-021-00062-w
Vilella, Renato C.
“Cognitive empathy involves perspective-taking, which refers to the ability to understand and adopt the viewpoint of others to comprehend their feelings and thoughts.”
Vilella, Renato C., and Anil Kumar Reddy Reddivari. “Empathy.” In StatPearls. Treasure Island, FL: StatPearls Publishing, 2023.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK587676/