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Jul. 21, 2022
Emotional Empathy Is Essential to Keeping Biases in Check
Mark B. Baer
Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.
I just read Robert Mann's article titled Why Should I Care About Empathy? that was published in today's (July 20) edition of the Daily Journal, and it really requires a response, which I have drafted as follows:
In addition to there not being one uniform definition of empathy, there is more than one type of empathy. At a minimum, there is cognitive empathy (perspective-taking) and emotional empathy, which is the type of empathy that is an a...
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