Love And Hate: Read The Preface Of Empathy And The Novel

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Love and Hate
Altruism is selflessness where one helps another person or people to benefit them and is motivated to help. Empathy is the emotional state of identifying and responding to another person’s suffering and is closely related to compassion, which reflects emotions that encourage altruistic behavior because there is concern for the suffering other people and desire to enhance their welfare. Love is characterized by compassion and empathy, while people develop feelings towards others based on their interactions, attitudes about them and whether they like or dislike them.
In many cases, people tend to show compassion and love to others based on their perceptions about similarity. For instance, we are more likely to show pain when we share commonalities with a person or group of people. Similarly, people show compassion...