The app for independent voices
I'm writing a second comment since it's unrelated to the first (below). Back in the day when I got my Psy.D. (aeons ago, as I'm Bob's age), what we now call cognitive empathy was called cognitive perspective taking, and empathy was reserved for those who actually felt others' emotions (e.g., cried at movies, etc.). Back then, it was thought that people with autism had a lack of cognitive perspective taking because they lacked a "theory of mind." We now know that many of these findings were due to language/communication deficits, and when the wording of a task was changed, they were able to take a different cognitive perspective. I digress. While cognitive empathy is, quite literally, useful, it can be used for good or bad. Cognitive empathy without emotional empathy = manipulative narcissism.