The Theoretical Examination of Understanding How an Other Person Feels

Understanding how an other person feels involves not simply identifying the feeling, but imaging how he/she "sees" the environment. Feeling in a certain mood makes him/her "see" the environment in a certain way. We understand more deeply how a person feels by comprehending his/her peculiar, concrete way of "seeing". In order to do this, we use our prior knowledge, especially of our own emotional experiences, stereotypical emotions, and dispositions of the target person. Inferences from those knowledge must go beyond direct implications of given information to comprehend other\u27s feelings in a concrete, episode-based way. Through these comprehension, we construct an other person\u27s "psychological world" full of episodes, weighted by his/her multifaceted purposes