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Empathy is broadly
defined as the capacity to understand and 'enter into' another person's
emotions. Empathising has been defined by Baron-Cohen as recognising what
someone else is feeling and responding appropriately. This may mean feeling the
same emotion yourself, e.g. feeling sad when someone else is, and/or showing
them that you recognise their emotion, e.g. by trying to comfort them. (See
also Empathy Quotient (EQ), Empathising-systemising theory, Systemising and
Systemising Quotient (SQ).)