As an empathy researcher, educator and a clinical psychiatrist, I've recently become aware of my own limited empathy as I've attempted to understand vaccine refusal, grappling with my own secret ...

Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Carroll is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Modern medicine has an ...

Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn't make coping with it any easier -- not least because while loved ones are grieving, they must also ...

A well-rounded education doesn't just include learning spelling and math. Kids need to learn how to be compassionate, too.

These days, someone seeking mental health support can find a variety of online communities to talk through what they’re feeling. In these communities, peers are usually responding, and empathy is key.

Parents can help their children develop empathy. Empathy begins with the capacity to take another perspective, or walk in another’s shoes. According to Dr. Michele Borba, kids learn empathy through ...

A useful framework for considering the needs of the “more-than-human world” when designing human-made systems is “ecological empathy,” the focus of Lauren Lambert, founder of Future Now, a ...

Now, with the economy still giving most Americans the jitters, the anti-empathy crowd is gearing up to take that win a step ...

Holiday gatherings can come with the invisible stress of potential arguments and conflict. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Tapping into empathy skills can help prepare you to face conflict head-on ...

Empathy is a complex process that includes both unconscious feelings and cognitive processing to feel and understand the emotions and experiences of others, or as we commonly say, “walk in someone ...

When service becomes automated, empathy becomes the differentiator. Customers will stay loyal to companies that show up with ...

Dark empaths are people who use the power of their empathy—which is the ability to detect and understand others’ feeling and emotions—not to help others but instead to manipulate others for personal ...