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Intellectual Empathy Study Lara Intellectual Empathy Formal Definition: Informal Definition: Synonym: "Having a consciousness of the need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of others in order to genuinely understand them, which requires the consciousness of our egocentric tendency to identify truth with our immediate perceptions of long-standing thought or belief. This trait correlates with the ability to reconstruct accurately the viewpoints and reasoning of others and to reason from premises, assumptions, and ideas other than our own. This trait also correlates with the willingness to remember occasions when we were wrong in the past despite an intense conviction that we were right, and with the ability to imagine our being similarly deceived in a case-at hand.\" --from The Foundation For Critical Thinking Showing the ability to \"walk in someone else's shoes;" being able to connect your own emotions and pains to the emotions and pains of another, but NOT in a way that makes it \"all about you.\" Important Note: You can empathize with a person's plight without agreeing with the factors that led them there. Conversely, you can tolerate a person's beliefs without empathizing with them. Of course, you can also be neither tolerant nor empathetic. Experiencing another's emotions (in some cases, compassion and sympathy are used as synonyms, but these are actually slightly different than empathy)