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.
""The first step is to actively seek to understand the problem; listen to what your employees are saying.
"Drug shortages represent a pressing public health issue, and we are actively working to understand the causes, the full scope of the problem in the U.S. and internationally, and possible solutions," said Dr. Howard K. Koh, an assistant secretary for health.
For more than three decades, the mechanics community has actively contributed to understand the phenomena of growth and remodeling from a mechanistic point of view.
That's because it's not simply processing more information more quickly; rather, it's actively working to understand me as a shopper more fully.
In case you don't know, Beckys are white women who aren't actively seeking to understand and dismantle white supremacy.
It becomes paramount that parents actively seek to understand how their child feels about their school environment, the teachers, their peers.
Studying anthropology at the pivotal secondary school age of accelerated personal and intellectual development, when students are actively seeking to understand their place in the world, equips students to eschew ethnocentric thinking and to better understand and appreciate the beauty in the diversity of human experiences.
One of the main concerns with this kind of mediation is that if people do not actively strive to understand it and become part of the conversation, they will lose their ability to be part of this progress and enact change.
The increasing gene expression profiles provided by LINCS are actively explored to understand drug action.
