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A hot-cold empathy gap is a cognitive bias in which people underestimate the influences of visceral drives on their own attitudes, preferences, and behaviors.[1][page needed] It is a type of empathy gap.[1]: 27 The most important aspect of this idea is that human understanding is "state-dependent". For example, when one is angry, it is difficult to understand what it is like for one to be calm, and vice versa; when one is blindly in love with someone, it is difficult to understand what it is like for one not to be, (or to imagine the possibility of not being blindly in love in the future). Importantly, an inability to minimize one's gap in empathy can lead to negative outcomes in medical settings (e.g., when a doctor needs to accurately diagnose the physical pain of a patient).[2] Hot-cold empathy gaps can be analyzed according to their direction:[2] They can also be classified in regards to their relation with time (past or future) and whether they occur intra- or inter-personally:[2]

Hot-cold empathy gap - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cognitive bias A hot-cold empathy gap is a cognitive bias in which people underestimate the influences of visceral drives and emotions on their own attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. [ 1 ] It is a type of empathy gap . [ 1 ] : 27 A "hot" state refers to the affectively driven state. In these states, people tend to act impulsively and prioritise short-term demands over long-term consequences. A "cold" state is the absence of affective arousals and visceral drives. [ 2 ] The most important aspect of this i

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