"When women saw the shock, they still had an empathetic response, even though it was reduced," Dr. Stephan said.

Simply asking these questions illustrates how little we know and understand and therefore how problematic an empathetic response may be.

This automatic change in brain activity is known as resonance and helps initiate an empathetic response.

The study concluded that physicians adapt to the healthcare environment by down regulating their automatic empathetic response to patient's pain.

The sufferers who write to Sacks receive a deeply empathetic response.

With justification, both Daytop plays draw an empathetic response from the audience, particularly from people who may have faced similar difficulties.

It was almost a relief to know it was a perfectly normal empathetic response.

Is this Brechtian "alienation effect," the deliberate distancing of dramatic characters from empathetic response?

Rogers tried to model a particular approach to therapy- he stressed the reflective or empathetic response.

This states that as objects become more lifelike they gain an increasing empathetic response, until a certain point in which the response changes to repulsion.