Hot Cold Empathy Gap
The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
This is the answer, why other people can’t understand your feelings
“We won’t understand what other people are going through until we experience it ourselves,”
- Psychology Earth.
Some of us have been in a situation, where no one can understand us and when we were in an unpleasant situation. Maybe also vice versa, we’ve been in a position where we can not relate and understand the behavior of others under certain conditions. This happens because at that time we are not in the same emotion and frequency with that person. This phenomenon is known as the Hot-Cold Empathy Gap. In hot-cold empathy is a metaphor used for the spectrum of emotions where, namely the “Hot State” zone which is a condition that produces more negative feelings like when we are angry, sad, depressed, disappointed, upset, lonely, hungry, etc. At this phase, we tend to prioritize our emotions over logic. The second condition is the “Cold State” which is a condition where we tend to feel stable mentally than being happy, calm, fulfilled, and satisfied. At this phase, we tend to think more rationally and logically.
Both of these conditions can later affect how we feel, think and understand the behavior of other people. For example, when we are in a cold…
