Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Imagine sitting in the kitchen, savoring the last bite of your pancake. As you swallow ...

The hot-cold empathy gap is the tendency to underestimate how our preferences will change when in either a 'hot' or 'cold' emotional state: A 'cold' state is where we are calm, collected, sensible and ...

The empathy gap, also known as the hot-cold empathy gap, refers to two visceral states – hot and cold. The hot state refers to our mental state influenced by hunger, sexual desire, fear ...