The key to gaining and keeping power, Keltner argues, is empathy, or being attuned to what other people are feeling. And that’s equally true whether we’re talking about middle schoolers or working professionals.Now for the insight that really rocked my…

Nancy Eisenberg’s article on helping children develop their natural tendencies for empathy touches on issues addressed in three or four of my pieces in this column in the past five years. Though the columns in question have addressed empathy in a…

 It might not seem like news, but women exhibit considerably more empathy towards their partners than men do, according to a large-scale study at Griffith University and the University of Queensland in Australia.When their partners succumbed to il…

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”As one of this world’s greatest architects of reconciliation and positive social change, surely Mandela — whose birthday was celebrated recently — is a…