Below is from the Sympathy entr
The bold statements appear to be reversed.
Thus it is possible to be:
* Empathetic but not sympathetic, by internally experiencing their
feeling but not being motivated to alleviating action as a result (eg, a lust
killer who is aroused by his victim's fear, or a con artist who knows how his
"mark" feels but uses it to manipulate not support),
and it is also possible to be:
* Sympathetic but not empathetic by realising (perhaps _cognitively_
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition) ) someone is upset and wanting to
alleviate that, but not experiencing their sense of upset directly and internally
as an emotional state within themselves (eg, a person at a help desk who
sees another in distress, does not feel distress themselves, but tries to find
what is wrong and help them anyway).
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See also