3 Independent stages of empathy
Emotional empathy
Cognitive empathy
Compassion
10 times as many people live alone today as compared to 1950.
"In 1950, 22 percent of American adults were single. Four million lived alone, and they accounted for 9 percent of all households […] Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million — roughly one out of every seven adults — live alone…People who live alone make up 28 percent of all U.S. households, https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/09/going-solo-klinenberg/
And, when we do interact with others, it's much more transactional.
People in helping professions can develop defensive dehumanization to prevent emotional overload of having empathy.
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Often when we encounter someone who is different from ourselves or has an opinion that we abhor, It's easy to view them as being either obtuse or dishonest or both. But that's a mistake. It's a view of the world that psychologists call a naive realism. Empathy is the understanding, at a deeper level, that someone else's view of the world is just as true as yours.
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