Emotion Resonance is “I feel your pain”, and can be of two types: identical resonance – realizing that someone else is in pain and then actually feeling the pain yourself or reactive resonance – when you sympathize with someone else’s pain and feel inclined to help (source: Ekman’s taxonomy of compassion)
Emotion Resonance
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