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Even dogs respond to someone yawning. The first is sympathetic.

This article is actually on the first page of reddit atm and shows that it could be missed facial cues instead of empathy. This makes sense because I've read seperately that dogs read facial cues as well.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=yawning-not-contagious-for-children-with-autism&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScientificAmerican-Global+%28Content%3A+Global%29

Yawning is supposed to be related to empathy. I'm not sure how accurate that is though. I don't yawn when other people yawn, but I think it really depends on the individual.

You can't put sociopaths all in one box and assume they all do the same thing.

 True.  I am not trying to single out sociopathy.  I think I am more trying to understand if any of those things are modified due to empathy or not.

Not singling out sociopaths? Well then.

I've been seeing gradually since discovering I like pain that my cringing to others in pain changed to lightly match how I'd respond to it instead. It's like I'm proxying myself as the one who was injured, except that isn't always a bad thing.

Even becoming that way with scenes in movies. It's weird.

by Turncoat

Not singling out sociopaths? Well then.

 I think I was generalizing, due to the popular belief that sociopaths operate without empathy.  Like the mascot or whatever.

 It is sort of weird, but I seem to possess slightly higher sympathetic or empathic response to tv or other media than with real live people.  It never made sense to me.  Is it that I feel safer in reflex to a movie, say, than a person that can register my reactions and respond to them?