Empathy

Empathy is a Psyche skill in Disco Elysium that lets the detective feel what is going on inside other people. It catches social cues that others overlook, such as a buried sadness, an odd cheerfulness in someone who should be grieving, or a quiet grudge that could come back to hurt him. At high levels he takes on others' pain so fully that he grows even less stable; at low levels he upsets nearly everyone he speaks to.