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Empathy Empathy is an emotional response to another person's emotion, most often distress. It involves sharing and understanding the other person's feelings. Often it is described as putting oneself into another's (emotional) shoes. Evidence of empathic responding can be seen in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain. In one study, for example, researchers scanned the brains of 7- to 12-year-old children while they were watching short animated films depicting people in painful and nonpainful situations (Decety, 2015; Decety et al., 2008). When the children saw the people who were in pain, it activated the same neural circuits as are activated when children experience pain firsthand. The earliest precursor of empathic responding to distress is newborns' crying in response to hearing other infants cry. Martin Hoffman (2000) termed this response "rudimentary empathic responding." Near the end of the first year, infants begin to exhibit a second kind of response, which Hoffman labeled "egocentric empathic distress." By this age, infants have begun to develop a sense of themselves as separate from others, and as a result they seek comfort for themselves in response to another's distress. They typically become agitated or cry in response to another child's distress, but they make little effort to help the other child. Need Assignment Help?