Sometimes
empathizers, such as those in the "helping professions," acquire a vested interest in the study, management, and perpetuation--as opposed to the solution and resulting disappearance--of sufferers' problems.
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President Bush's disinclination to serve as "
empathizer in chief" did not seem to inhibit his authority.
Baron-Cohen played a central role in establishing the theory of mind hypothesis, but his definition of empathizing seems tailored to the extreme-male-brain theory of autism: If CE is the first stage in empathizing and EE (or empathic concern) is the second stage, then people with a CE deficit may almost inevitably be identified as weak
empathizers. However, if CE and EE are separable systems, then either CE or EE can be the first empathic step.
It is one thing to discover, however, that high
empathizers report empathetic reading experiences, and quite another to show that empathetic reading experiences can contribute to changing a reader's disposition, motivations, and attitudes.
Instead of reveling in the power of gizmos to transform the world, as he is wont to do, Gates, apparently a born-again
empathizer, told the crowd that basic health care and literacy programs, not computers, are the most important ways to help the world's poorest people.
He takes his role as
empathizer seriously; when his mother and Anne Long die he must re-create this role in the account book.
According to Rowe's model[4] four communication styles (director, reasoner, persuader, and
empathizer) are described based on two dimensions: amount of information used (high or low) and purpose of communication (create change or provide choice).
This was a candidate with almost perfect pitch; his great and unusual political strength was as a listener and an
empathizer, which is why he is still so skilled at mediation.
The author examines the parallel and multiple conceptions of the self in clinical work from psychoanalytic to interpersonal to existential points of view and the inherent dilemma for the
empathizer of divided states of consciousness.
"In empathy, the
empathizer "reaches out" for the other person.
This is typically based on an understanding of the target's situation and shows the
empathizer's ability to identify with the target.