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 =====Types of Empathy=====
-  * Cognitive empathy - just an understanding of other's internal state
+  * Cognitive empathy - an understanding of other's internal state
   * Affective empathy - includes the emotional reaction to other's internal state
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 Emotional contagion may result in different immediate responses in more complex situations, such as 'gloating'.
+====Empathic processes=====
+The separation of empathy into cognition and it's results are important because the outcomes can also be seen as the result of other processes.
+===Non-cognative processes===
+  * Pre-verbal links
+  * Early in life - babies cry in presence of other crying babies.
+  * Motor mimicry, simply following other's gestures creates an emotional link - also used later in life.
+===Simple cognitive processes===
+  * 'Classical conditioning' sharing an intense emotional experience with another person, allows you to learn the connection between responses and situations. Later you can relate a similar response in another person with the event you've experienced.
+  * Internal labeling of situations with appropriate responses.
 =====OCC Theory (used for FAtiMA)=====