Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy

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Table 1. Proposed definitions.

Empathy	‘Appropriately attend to experiential differences and similarities. Balancing between proximism and distantism’.
Proximism	‘Mistakenly disregarding experiential differences’.
Ego-projectionism	‘A form of proximism. Extending your experiences to another’.
Experiential appropriation	‘A form of proximism. Extending another’s experiences to oneself’.
Distantism	‘Mistakenly disregarding experiential similarities’.