When one of my clients experienced discrimination in the workplace, she confided in a colleague. She had hoped to feel understood, validated, and supported. Instead, her colleague’s response made her ...

When a friend is suffering from some misfortune, loss, or stressful experience, we want to be able to commiserate in a way that is both helpful and supportive. Whether it’s a physical problem, like a ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Something bad has happened to all of us. The loss of a loved one, an illness, a car crash, or even smaller things like a missed concert ...

Empathy and sympathy are both ways we respond to the suffering of people around us. But there’s a crucial difference: Sympathy is acknowledging someone else’s pain, but empathy is choosing to feel the ...

Empathy is a fashionable concept that is inviting itself into thoughts about relationship professions. The most common injunction concerns people in positions of authority. "The manager must be ...

Empathy vs. sympathy. The last couple of months have made me think of the difference between the two in the context of work relations. Empathy is the capacity to understand what another person is ...

I’m beginning to feel sorry for sympathy. It was once such an honorable impulse. Humble, sincere, caring. Sympathy was meant for people who suffered or had less. In its most modest form, a sympathy ...

Something bad has happened to all of us. The loss of a loved one, an illness, a car crash, or even smaller things like a missed concert or an argument with a partner. When these unfortunate events ...