Tag
empathy
Entries tagged with empathy - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.
5 concepts
Compassion Fatigue
When constant exposure to suffering erodes your ability to care, not because you're heartless but because you're human.
Psychological PhenomenonDesensitisation
When repeated exposure to something shocking, disturbing, or morally uncomfortable gradually reduces your emotional response to it - until it barely registers at all.
Cognitive BiasFundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to explain other people's behaviour as a result of their character while explaining your own as a result of your circumstances.
Logical FallacyJust-World Fallacy
The belief that people get what they deserve - that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people.
Cognitive BiasNaive Realism
The belief that you see the world as it objectively is - and that anyone who disagrees must be biased, uninformed, or irrational.