Question

Read the following sentence and then select the correct word to go in the blank:

It is important for people to develop _____ skills at a young age so they can better understand the feelings of others.

A. dejected
B. perfidy
C. empathy
D. antipathy

Answer 1

It is important for people to develop empathy skills at a young age so they can better understand the feelings of others.

Answer 2

The answer is C: empathy.

Empathy is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else´s position in order to comprehend or feel what that other person is experiencing, from that person´s perspective. Empathy covers a wide range of emotional states that go from cognition, emotion, to even corporeal or somatic feelings or sensations.