Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.”  It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung.
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Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 2:30pm

Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction

Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.”  It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung.
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