Gregory John Depow and colleagues researched the experience of empathy, which is the ability to comprehend and share the emotions of another person. It is like having acquired fresh insight into something about another person that has improved one's capacity to connect with and better grasp the experiences or perspectives of another. Almost all empathy research is done in laboratories with strangers, which is challenging as it can create negative emotions. In this study, individuals demonstrated more empathy for good emotions than negative emotions, and participants showed more empathy for pleasurable experiences than painful ones. Positive emotions like pleasure and excitement are shown to be three times more common than negative emotions like disgust, anger, and fear. Close friends were more likely to evoke empathy. This effect is very likely linked to accessibility, since people interact with friends rather than strangers. (Depow et al., 2020)
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