Using an Edugame to Develop Socio-Emotional and Perspective-Taking Skills at School

“to feel the suffering of the other, putting oneself in his or her place and inhibiting it within oneself in order to help. It is evidently also involved in sharing joy, and allows one to adopt what in the scientific literature are called prosocial behaviors. Finally, we would point out that being able to inhibit the emotion felt for the other avoids becoming involved in collective passions, in crowd phenomena, activated by the resonance that sympathy provokes. Empathy is thus a cooperation and competition of processes that allow one to understand the other deeply, while preserving one's independence [author translation]” (Berthoz & Ferraresi, 2015, p.155)