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   * 'Classical conditioning' sharing an intense emotional experience with another person, allows you to learn the connection between responses and situations. Later you can relate a similar response in another person with the event you've experienced.   * 'Classical conditioning' sharing an intense emotional experience with another person, allows you to learn the connection between responses and situations. Later you can relate a similar response in another person with the event you've experienced.
   * Internal labeling of situations with appropriate responses.   * Internal labeling of situations with appropriate responses.
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 +==Advanced cognitive processes==
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 +  * Language understanding (even alone, in situations like engaging with characters in a book)
 +  * 'Role taking' - imagining yourself in another's perspective. 
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 +All these can operate simultaneously.
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 +==Intrapersonal outcomes==
 +  * Internal changes, expressed or not
 +  * Affective outcomes
 +    * Parallel - same emotion, motor mimicry
 +    * Reactive - merge own with other's reactions (distress, sympathy or gloating).
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 +Accuracy:
 +  * Similarity and familiarity with subject
 +  * Difference between explaining your own behaviours and others (tend to be situational forces vs personality characteristics)
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 +==Interpersonal outcomes==
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 +Changes in behavior resulting from empathic processes:
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 +  * Helping
 +  * Aggression
 +  * Social behavior
  
  
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