Empathy is a catch-all phrase describing two separate concepts, and the psychological literature is careful to distinguish them: Cognitive empathy is the abili

Empathy is a catch-all phrase describing two separate concepts, and the psychological literature is careful to distinguish them: Cognitive empathy is the ability to know what others are feeling. Affective empathy is when cognitive empathy causes you to have similar feelings to others. It's best if we just assume that everyone else is just like ourselves, and reserve our distrust for people that try to tell us otherwise. No, this is the typical mind fallacy, where we assume our mind is typical. It'll fail you wildly if you leave your local culture.