It is the emotional or cognitive identification that an individual experiences in the situation, state, feelings of another; the ability to understand it and put yourself in place. The term was created by British psychologist Edward B. Titchener at the beginning of the twentieth century taking from ancient Greek the voice 949; 956; 960; 945; 952; 949; 953; 945; ( empatheia, "passion" ), formed by the prefix 949; 957; (in "in , inclusion" 960; 945; 952; 959; 962; ( pathos "illness, feeling, life experience" ). See sympathy.