<Li> Holding grudges and having difficulty to forgive </Li> <Li> Inability to work in a team </Li> <P> There are concerns that the empathizer's own emotional background may affect or distort what emotions they perceive in others (e.g. Goleman 1996: p. 104). It is evidenced that societies that promote individualism have lower ability for empathy . Empathy is not a process that is likely to deliver certain judgments about the emotional states of others . It is a skill that is gradually developed throughout life, and which improves the more contact we have with the person with whom one empathizes . Empathizers report finding it easier to take the perspective of another person when they have experienced a similar situation, as well as experience greater empathic understanding . Research regarding whether similar past experience makes the empathizer more accurate is mixed . </P> <P> The extent to which a person's emotions are publicly observable, or mutually recognized as such has significant social consequences . Empathic recognition may or may not be welcomed or socially desirable . This is particularly the case where we recognize the emotions that someone has towards us during real time interactions . Based on a metaphorical affinity with touch, philosopher Edith Wyschogrod claims that the proximity entailed by empathy increases the potential vulnerability of either party . The appropriate role of empathy in our dealings with others is highly dependent on the circumstances . For instance, Tania Singer says that clinicians or caregivers must be objective to the emotions of others, to not over-invest their own emotions for the other, at the risk of draining away their own resourcefulness . Furthermore, an awareness of the limitations of empathic accuracy is prudent in a caregiving situation . </P>

List and explain the five skills demonstrated by an empathetic person