Quote from: SoupSarah on July 28, 2024, 12:31:00 PMNot here to diagnose, but that sounds more akin to social anxiety than cognitive empathy. 2018 study found support for a negative correlation between social anxiety and cognitive empathy. Participants with lower cognitive empathy were more likely to have higher levels of social anxiety. high affective empathy typically means you experience emotions along with others. But with low cognitive empathy, you have a harder time understanding what people feel, so you might struggle to make sense of what those emotions actually mean. This can easily become confusing and overwhelming, especially when it comes to unpleasant emotions.
But here's an interesting thing: Authors from a smaller 2011 study compared participants with high and low social anxiety and found that people with high social anxiety had more accurate affective empathy and less accurate cognitive empathy.
I don't have social anxiety, Sarah. I just keep myself away from people because I don't want to feel what they feel. I don't even know what you're trying to say... and you know what? It doesn't even matter. I'm sorry if anything I've said is going against your obviously more learned stance on all of this. And, to be honest, I don't even care. That wasn't the point of this thread. I was trying to make this more of a positive thing... for people to read and feel good. Girl, you kinda need a hobby.
So I'll go with another positive thing...
Coming here. That was probably the single most positive thing that's happened in my life. To experience the wealth of understanding, wisdom and sheer desire to better everyone. That was a highlight! And I don't regret it for a second! <3
Sorry, folks. Back to regularly scheduled programming!
