In this episode, learn what empathy is—the traditional definition, the scientific definition, and the host's definition. Listen to hosts Samantha Watkins and Solomon Livshits discuss how empathy differs from sympathy and compassion and why that matters; how it appears across the human lifespan; and get teasers of future episodes on empathic action and the neuroscience of empathy.

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