Mary Gordon from Roots of Empathy is working to create a world where every person has the chance to develop their emotional literacy. At a panel called “Empathy Leadership” at the Skoll World Forum, she shared that she didn’t believe …

Obama’s preference for “judicial empathy” means appointments to the Supreme Court should favour, “Someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book … It is also about how our…

The researchers chose to examine political differences because of the big divide perceived between people on opposing sides, as shown by earlier research. We can look beyond someone having a different gender or being from a different country, but if yo…

When we try to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, we usually go all the way, assuming that they feel the same way we do. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that we have …