emotion
(i-moh-shŏn)a state of arousal that can be experienced as pleasant or unpleasant. Emotions can have three components: for example, fear can involve an unpleasant subjective experience, an increase in ...
empathy
n. the ability to imagine and understand the thoughts, perspective, and emotions of another person. In counselling and psychotherapy empathy is often considered to be one of the necessary qualities ...
mirror neurons Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
In the mid 1990s a new class of premotor neurons was discovered in the rostral sector of the macaque monkey's