Empathy is a vicarious emotional state produced by perspective-taking

Evidence

Empathy is generally defined as a vicarious emotional state triggered by witnessing the emotional state of another. Empathy is thought to be the result of perspective-taking, which is imagining how another person perceives their situation and how they might feel as a result. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1835

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise conceptual distinction between empathy (vicarious emotion) and perspective-taking (imagining another’s perception).
• XREF: connects to: Empathy manipulations can reliably induce perpetrator perspective-taking in experiments — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 1064; Perspective taking can weaken fear-based realistic threat via induced empathy. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 166