Andrew Huberman· PhD
First of all, all social bonds have the potential to include both what we call emotional empathy and cognitive empathy.
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
First of all, all social bonds have the potential to include both what we call emotional empathy and cognitive empathy.
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And so if you are interested in establishing and deepening social bonds of any kind, it's important that you put some effort towards this thing that we call emotional empathy, which is really about sharing autonomic experience.
It's absolutely clear that strong social bonds between children and caretaker involve both emotional empathy, this autonomic function and cognitive empathy, that there's a mutual understanding of how the other person feels and how the other person thinks in order to be able to make predictions about what they're going to do.
And it's absolutely clear that strong social bonds between children and caretaker involve both emotional empathy, this autonomic function, and cognitive empathy. That there's a mutual understanding of how the other person feels and how the other person thinks in order to be able to make predictions about what they're going to do.
that emotional empathy and cognitive empathy are both required in order to establish what we call a trusting social bond.