Hot-Cold Empathy Gap

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconcan't predict future feelings
Executive Parlancestate dependency
Scholarly Discoursevisceral state undervaluation
Babel ZenithHot-Cold Empathy Gap
Origin: George Loewenstein

Etymology & Meaning

Difficulty predicting behavior when in different emotional states.

In the Boardroom

Making calm decisions about situations that will be stressful.

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