Is empathy the same thing as emotional intelligence?

Answer 1

Not quite but they are pretty much the same thing.

Empathy is the tendency to feel others emotions. E.g. feeling for people when they are in pain. Of course to truly feel what they feel you need understand what they feel. This takes either great imagination or having experienced the same situation yourself.

Emotional IQ is a slightly broader concept but is pretty much related to ones ability to sympathize or empathize with others.

Answer 2

Emotional intelligence is the awareness of the tendency for certain emotions to develop due to events encountered whereas empathy is imaginatively projecting your self into the world of another and making an attempt at feeling what they are feeling given their circumstances.

Answer 3

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:

A form of intelligence relating to the emotional side of life, such as the ability to recognize and manage one's own and others' emotions, to motivate oneself and restrain impulses, and to handle interpersonal relationships effectively.

Empathy (from the Greek εμπάθεια, transliterated as empatheia, meaning "physical affection, partiality") is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotion of another. Since the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively define another's mode of thought and mood. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or to in some way experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself, a sort of emotional resonance.

Answer 4

not a philosophy question try psychology

Answer 5

'UNDERSTAND', THE COMPASSIONATE........