Psychology Today | 28.04.2026 20:14
Your primary empathy style — cognitive, emotional, intuitive, or spiritual — reflects how you most naturally express empathy to yourself and others. Although you may relate to other styles as well, your primary style is your default setting — how you naturally express empathy most of the time. Knowing your style is the starting point for appreciating how your own empathy functions and how you can comfortably give and receive caring. (Note that people high in narcissism and others with empathy-deficient disorders will not have a style of empathy because they lack this quality.)
