Sentence examples for empathy call from inspiring English sources

The ranking Republican on the panel, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, said: "Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law.

A few years ago, neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, reported in Science that mice possess a simple kind of empathy called emotional contagion.

Thus a certain strange empathy is called for, no matter how cold-hearted.

Again, my unrivaled ability for empathy is called into play, for many of us are dealing with the humbling realities of the new workplace.

Their empathy questionnaire, called the empathy quotient (EQ), defines empathy as including a cognitive component a "drive to attribute mental states to another person/animal"—and an affective component, entailing "an appropriate affective response in the observer to the other's person's mental state" (168).

Emotional contagion is what we used to call "empathy".

Discretion and public virtue — qualities related to what we, today, might call empathy.

(The activated voxels were in the region of the brain associated with "social perspective taking," or what the rest of us would call empathy).

But across the line there is genuine emotional curiosity, a feeling that people in less cynical times used to call empathy.

One weeps out of private pain, but only when the audience swarms in and claims understanding and empathy do people call it a tragedy.

He claims that the sentiments of moral approval and disapproval are caused by some of the operations of sympathy, which is not a feeling but rather a psychological mechanism that enables one person to receive by communication the sentiments of another (more or less what we would call empathy today).