This handout defines and contrasts "empathy" alongside "responses may meet needs, but are not empathy" (such as advice, correcting, consoling, etc). This handout defines and contrasts "empathy" alongside "responses may meet needs, but are not empathy" (such as advice, correcting, consoling, etc). Read this article Keywords: learning tool empathy nonempathy not empathy unempathic LaShelle Lowe-Chardé