Assertion: empathy | /r/HasProperty | cognitive
Facets:
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Projection was personal and merely referred to the self, whereas empathy was objective, cognitive and truly perceptive.
text: Some authors have made the case that empathy is primarily a cognitive process involving the skill of perspectiveor role-taking; others have argued that empathy is a vicariously shared emotion that does not necessarily involve the higher mental processes; still others have attempted to reconcile these two perspectives somewhat by arguing that while it can occur without perspective-taking, the likelihood of empathic response increases in the presence of perspective-taking abilities and skill.