in empathetic listening, is important because it demonstrates that one understands the speaker's emotions.

The answer is paying thoughtfulness to another person with empathy emotional sympathy, compassion, feeling, and insight. One basic belief is to "seek to understand, before being understood. Also, it is Empathetic listening accepting the speaker's personal frame of orientation and giving a response that expresses that understanding to the speaker.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.