In psychology, the term empathy refers to the ability that one person has to imagine oneself in the other person's situation, in other words, they "put themselves in the other person's shoes". Empathy therefore involves the recognition and understanding of another person's feelings.
In this example Janice says "put yourself in my position, can't you help me out?", so we can see that J<u>anice is trying to make you put yourself in her shoes and understand her so you help her</u>, therefore she's trying to evoke empathy on you so you can help her out.
"put yourself in my position," janice whines. "can't you spare an hour to help me out?" janice is attempting to evoke __Empathy______ when trying to persuade you to help her
