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Perspective-taking is a cognitive and empathetic process that involves understanding and considering the thoughts, feelings, and viewpoints of others. It is the ability to put oneself in someone else's shoes, mentally stepping into their perspective to gain a better understanding of their experiences and emotions.

Jean Piaget showed that this is a developed trait in humans and children have a hard time with it until they develop a Theory of Mind[1]

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Broockman and Kalla also suspected that deep canvassing also encouraged analogic perspective taking, a key moment in human cognitive development. The idea goes all the way back to Piaget, who first observed that small children couldn’t do it. It’s the discovery that other minds perceive, think, and believe things differently than… (Location 926) #✂️

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When we gain a theory of mind, we also gain the ability to imagine what it must be like to be another person, to see and feel things as they do, to have different opinions because of different exposure to… (Location 932) #✂️

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