Can we rely on our empathy?

As all things emotional, this useful mechanism can also be terribly unwieldy

Most of us humans are capable of experiencing empathy, a concept that can be broken further down into two different categories: cognitive empathy and affective empathy. The former refers to our ability to put ourselves in the feet of someone else, while the latter involves being able to share an emotional state with others.

Still not clear? Imagine this: you are visiting your parents under the suspicion that your mom has been…