There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case Presid…
Daily Archives: 18/05/2012
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There is growing interest in the use of meditation and other contemplative practices to promote mental and physical health. A recent study published in the Journal of Emotions (2012) examined the emotional changes that can result from meditatio…
A Techwise Conversation with Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule… So I think of oxytocin as kind of a thermostat. So humans are social creatures; we need to engage in appropriate social behaviors. And most of those appropriate behaviors ar…
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Compassion fatigue starts in medical school. A recent study by Daniel Chen et al found that students with higher empathy scores tended to choose more people-oriented specialties, such as primary care and psychiatry, over more technical specialti…
When schools need to make cuts to save money, music is often top of the list. In the UK, funding for music in schools and the training of music teachers continues to be cut… In today’s modern world, we exert our own powers of selection v…
In the ‘everyone is a changemaker’ world, no business can succeed unless it works consistently to ensure that all its people have this core capacity and inner commitment… The Man: Founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Publi…
In the ‘everyone is a changemaker’ world, no business can succeed unless it works consistently to ensure that all its people have this core capacity and inner commitment… The Man: Founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Publi…
When is a yawn just a yawn? When is a yawn more than a yawn? Contagious yawning – the increase in likelihood that you will yawn after watching or hearing someone else yawn – has been of particular interest to researchers in fields as varied…
Cultivating Empathy for the Person We BlamedFinding empathy for the person we blame is one of the most difficult practices we can develop. I remember a time when I was in a relationship with someone, let’s call her Nancy, who was addicted to a su…