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?
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.
"As a father I'd love to convey my understanding of the prevailing emotions of distress and anguish amongst both Peter and the whole family," he wrote.
Like them, Time Reborn tries not only to convey an understanding of the difficulties faced by contemporary physicists, but also to advance novel solutions to those problems.
Klimt's drawings display a nuanced intuition of female sexuality and convey his understanding of sexuality's link with aggression, picking up on things that even Freud missed.
Mubarak's move didn't exactly convey an understanding that Egyptians might not want him to be a better autocrat with a more efficient team — that they might not want him, or any autocrat, at all.
They were, for example, better able to use prolonged eye contact, more open body positions, facial expressions and even light touch to encourage patients and convey respect, understanding, availability and attention.
Mr. Romney is a natural-born number cruncher, and his charts and graphs seem to be part of an effort to both convey his understanding of complex issues and try to simplify them into digestible bites for the average voter.
