Today, there are many definitions of empathy. Most clinical and counseling psychologists, however, agree that true empathy requires three distinct skills: the ability to share the other person’s feelings, the cognitive ability to intuit what another person is feeling, and a “socially beneficial” intention to respond compassionately to that person’s distress (Decety & Jackson, 2004). In this chapter, we will deal primarily with the second of these processes: the ability of people to “feel themselves into” another’s emotions via the process of emotional contagion.