Essays on Empathy

The date was Thursday, November 22, 2018. It was Thanksgiving Day and my family and I were at the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on our way back home from visiting family. The airport was brimming with hungry, lethargic people impatiently waiting in line to weigh their luggage. I recognized the smell of fading Chanel perfume that women were wearing and the smell of popcorn. I heard the sound of luggage wheels gliding across the cracks in the tile. Three business women were battling ...

Within the field of psychology, one of the most heavily debated concepts is the “nature-versus-nurture” conundrum. Psychologists have wondered for years whether personality traits, mental disorders, emotional phenomena, and more are the product of predetermined neural connections or the result of a lifetime of social learning. While the answer to these questions tends to be “both,” researchers still seek to understand to what extent we are predisposed versus taught to behave. One such ...

Empathy can be defined as the ability and tendency of a person to understand what another person is thinking and feeling in a given situation to understand the intentions of others and experience an emotion triggered by their emotion thereby allowing us to interact effectively in the social world. It was first introduced by Titchener (1909) as an English translation of the German term “Einfühlung”, itself a term from aesthetics meaning “to project yourself into what you observe” which was ...

I feel that I am an empathic listener. An empathic listener is someone who tries to know how someone is feeling. As an empathic listener we give support to those who may need it. Someone who may need a shoulder to lean on or an ear to talk off. I love to help others and this is one way to help. As a pharmacy tech I see all types of feeling in the hospital I work for. There is illness, surgeries and death. When walking through the halls I make sure to greet everyone, asking them how their day ...

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is about the journey of a father and son across the United states, and along the way he presents his son with several philosophical perspectives and life lessons. One idea that Pirsig presents to his son is the idea of perspective. He says, "we take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world." Perspective is how one views things and their outlook on life. Perspective reminds us what's ...

In David Foster Wallace’s renowned speech entitled This Is Water, subjectivity is seen as essential to the human condition. Wallace claims that it is impossible to separate ones prior opinions, thoughts, and experiences from their current experience. Whether we like it or not, we exist in a conscious state that is constantly tainted by our notions, and thus all reality is subjective to the one experiencing it. Wallace draws a metaphor between humans and fish; we each live immersed in our own ...

Emotion is a powerful force. Understanding this powerful and mysterious force can aid us to appreciate the enormous role in the way we relate to others (Floyd, 2009). In this emotion assignment, I am going to describe about the two emotions that are difficult for me to express and how I deal with it, and the two emotions I find hard to deal with when others express it to me. Also, I will represent my ideas about how dealing with emotions and communicating effectively is necessary for social ...

In the Dust bowl of nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty-six seven thousand people died and more than a billion dollars was lost in farmers crops. Many felt bad for the people in this area because there homes were destroyed as well as land and whatever land was still good was taken. Mrs. Lottie and Lizabeth both had the same feelings of being down because the marigolds were destroyed. In the time of tragic moments many people will help you out and in return if something like this happens to them ...

A major component of communication is through non-verbal facial cues which can relay certain emotions and messages to others (Ickes, 1993). Social settings can dictate the appropriate emotion that should be expressed, and humans have the ability to read these non-verbal cues and respond with the proper the emotion (Parkinson, 1996). Chovil (1991) looked at four different settings in order to measure how emotional expression specifically facial display can change based on the sociality of the ...

The purpose of this report to show the functions of management. In this report, I touched on the Belbin theory, Myers Brigg theory and Daniel Goleman theory. Theses few theories are the backbone of what makes a good management. I believe that working in a team is important to the work life or to any organisations, by equipping myself with the necessary skills it allows me to explore and speak with my companions. Understanding human feelings and how they adapt distinctive circumstances empowers ...

Self-sympathy might be critical to supporting youngster psychological well-being. Dr. Karen Bluth shares exercises from her careful self-sympathy program. Leslie went to the top of the line of my course on self-empathy for adolescents with a conclusive chip on her shoulder. She declined to sit with the gathering, remaining on the border with arms rebelliously crossed and eyes limited. There was no uncertainty of the message she was passing on: "Don't you set out endeavor to influence me to ...

Sam Richards describes empathy in his talk on TED talk as a way in which covert things shape human beings. In a broad view of sociology, it mainly comprises of understanding other people’s situations and viewing issues as they do. Richard’s idea is to bring to the society to the point that they will view the world broadly to understand matters beyond them. Empathy is an essential aspect of sociological imagination as it helps people think beyond themselves and also to understand the world ...

In this journal, I will talk about two separate subjects: First, I will talk about my take on the potential reason why it happens to be so difficult for counselors-in-training to study the cross-cultural aspect of counseling extensively. Then I will move on to the discussion related to what I mentioned briefly in the class meeting on October 24th. The both subjects are based on my reading of The Relationship of Culture and Empathy in Cross-Cultural Counseling by Chung and Bemak. I would ...

Having supported the children and young people during other academic sessions over the year, I felt I sense the impact that volunteering had on them personally and on their learning. Their sheer enthusiasm inspired me to try to capture and analyze their experiences. In our action learning section, I asked for their narratives, asking what it was about the experience that so differed based on their daily life. My overriding sense was that the immersive nature of the volunteering combined with ...