Empathic-concern and perspective-taking are ideas that, I believe, go hand in hand. While perspective-taking is the act of taking on the point-of- view of another person, or “putting one’s self into another person’s shoes,” empathic-concern is the feeling of sympathy and tenderness (for said person) that can follow. I believe that the distinction between these two items is important because one is unlikely to have an affect without the other. To explain, I’ll use an example from my own life. As a married person I rely on my husband to do some household chores, however, he doesn’t always do them in a timely manner. This can be extremely frustrating for me, but by taking his perspective, I can understand that he works long hours and more than
