Unlike sympathizing, which involves feeling sorry for another's circumstances, empathy requires actively trying to understand another's experience of the world, and conveying this understanding to him/her through words of comfort and through actions and gestures of positive nonverbal feedback.
In parallel with Sigmund Freud (1856 1939), they knew how to enter the private theatre of another's mind, to understand its nature, mood and emotion, and to convey that understanding to the viewer.' (p. 500).
"How can you form together words and sentences to convey the understanding of what it is for your body to no longer be your own?
But whether this understanding conveys any advantages remains an open question.
Trust, Hollis argues, is at the heart of truly resilient cities because it conveys the understanding of places as shared experiences, where people come together for mutual benefit.
This video, covering a full crop cycle, documents the contrasting growth of SRI and non-SRI plants and conveys the understanding of SRI/SICA that Romero and neighboring farmers have gained from their experience with the new methods.
In a survey of research participants, we previously identified enthusiasm for learning all types of results; however, this conveyed limited understanding of the underlying perceived value of the information.
They may convey understanding, but this was explained as an avoidance strategy: "[Women] will sit there and just go, 'yes', and not take the tablets, because they don't know what it's about.
A mathematical model is used in science for a two-fold purpose: first, to understand and convey understanding of observed phenomena, and second, to predict the state of a system given initial conditions [ 4].
So the vision expressed by leaders in health care must convey both understanding and resolve.
