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    A parent's happiness about a child's happiness may arise ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A parent's happiness caused by their child being happy does not necessarily constitute empathic emotion.

    A parent's happiness about a child's happiness may arise from the parent's own desire that their children be happy, making it an emotional response appropriate to the parent's perspective, not the child's situation.

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    Appropriate (in philosophical context)(used to explain that the parent's happiness makes sense from the parent's viewpoint, even if it might not match the child's actual situation)
    Fitting or suitable given the particular circumstances or point of view being discussed.
    Emotional response(used to describe the parent's feeling as something that happens naturally, not something they decide)
    A feeling or emotion that someone experiences in reaction to something, rather than a thought they deliberately choose.

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    A particular way of looking at or thinking about something based on your own position, experiences, and concerns.

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    Affective and proper Empathy: More narrowly and properly understood, empathy in the affective sense is the vicarious sharing of an affect. Authors however differ in how strictly they interpret the phrase of vicariously sharing an affect. For some, it requires that the empathizers and the persons they empathize with need to be in very similar affective states (Coplan 2011; de Vignemont and Singer 2006; Jacob 2011). For Hoffman, on the other hand, it is an emotional response requiring only “the in

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