empathic
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The empathic distance that reality TV affords still allows us to not only delight in the Traitors’ impressive murder run but perhaps fantasize as to how well we’d perform in their place.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
Students vastly underestimated how empathic, kind and friendly their average peer was.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Researchers at Durham University found that chimpanzees were as likely to console one another as bonobos - even though the latter is typically considered the more "empathic" primate.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
It is Cronenberg’s empathic, almost tender approach to the material that humanizes the film; his tonal approach is redemptive rather than grindhouse exploitative.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024
“Your police department—others as well—may have retired, very probably have retired, authentic humans with underdeveloped empathic ability, such as my innocent niece here. Your position, Mr. Deckard, is extremely bad morally. Ours isn’t.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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