"I am feeling tension in my whole body": An experimental phenomenological study of empathy for pain.
Frontiers in Psychology 2022 David Martínez-pernía, Ignacio Cea, Alejandro Troncoso et al. 25 citations
Traditionally, empathy has been studied from two main perspectives: the theory-theory approach and the simulation theory approach. These theories claim that social emotions are fundamentally constituted by mind states in the brain. In contrast, classical phenomenology and recent research based on the enactive theories consider empathy as the basic process of contacting others' emotional...