Cognitive vs Effective Empathy

(Full essay shortly)

Summary: Personality disorders mean only cognitive empathy and no affective empathy. You cannot have affective empathy without cognitive empathy.

VeryWellMind - What to Do If You or a Loved One Lack Empathy

Psychology Today - The Risk Factors for Continuing the Cycle of Abuse

Manpitive types may use cognitive empathy to manipulate others who are not educated on such matters; the manipulator cannot sense the harm of their actions to others.

Effective empathy is seen in those who respect boundaries and do not perform certain actions or statements to serve their agenda.

Being educated and removing truth basis can allow the perception beyond face value about patterned behaviour; it’s not going to change due to the mechanics and what the person is thinking about others.

Dark Triad and Tetrad types operate without something that others should be fully aware of, and the affected or unbalanced childhood is projected fuel without growth in place.

True or False: A person with affective and cognitive empathy will think one way with accountability, consideration and long-term choices, a person without will do something else when fear of exposure is triggered. Feedback is not an option; the lie behind the eyes is not processed in any way; it may be put on to someone else instead, guilt and shame are not in the equation, only “why me?” or “if I am hurting, so must they.”

References:

LiveScience - Can psychopaths learn to feel empathy?

VeryWellMind - What to Do If You or a Loved One Lack Empathy