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 :EDIT: The above actually sounds like instructions to develope a not-already-had ability of empathy, even though it is claiming to be how it is done in general. The person who wrote it is probably not really empathetic themselves. Empathetic people do not intentionally copy the person they are "reading," and simply do not use those methods. It is more that they can simply see indicators, or signs, of the person's emotions, and then they make guesses in why, which may or may not be educated. Empaths already know emotions well enough to not need to try to mimic an expression to figure out what it means. To be empathetic is to be observant, emotionally intelligent, and interested in the other person's emotions. The latter of which is why empaths are not so with everyone they come in contact with, mostly just people with which they are familiar. And, it is also why they sometimes share the other person's feeling, because they care about that person and are emotionally influenced by them. Either you are, or you are not empathetic, end of discussion, and the writer of that "methods" nonsense clearly was not. 

 Someone at 71.223.70.18 placed this in the article. Perfectly valid criticism, I'm sure, but it belongs here, not on the main page. Care to rewrite the offending section?