https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-travelling-apollo/201801/sad-songs-say-so-muchabout-the-listener Both empathy and social contagion involve taking on the perspective of other people. The empathy sub-scale most closely associated with moving sadness was fantasy, which suggests that the ability to identify with the perspectives of fictional characters, and to “lose oneself” in their stories, plays a key role inContinue Reading