Empathy — the ability to share someone else’s feelings — is perhaps the most important trait humans demonstrate. It’s not a purely human attribute — in fact, even rodents possess it — but humans are particularly good at it.It al…

Welcome to a world of changemaking. For the next two weeks we welcome you to explore, with changemakers around the world, the topic of Empathy.   Do you want your children to be tolerant, compassionate, and kind? Do you worry about bullying? …

Even if it turns out that some yawns can be explained through purely physiological means, yawning is also contagious for humans and other species. If someone watches someone else yawning, they’ll be likely to yawn as well. That means that there i…

Empathy is a fashionable topic, but the discussion surrounding it is often a bit touchy-feely, short on rigor.  In contrast, I recently came across this excellent TEDx talk by Helen Riess delivered at Middlebury a bit over a year ago.&nb…