In the study, the researchers, Elisa Demuru and Elisabetta Palagi, observed 12 captive bonobos for 3 months at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands. Observation sessions lasted 6 hours and took place in both the morning and in the evening. A to…

In the present study, we investigated the effects of empathic paraphrasing as an extrinsic emotion regulation technique in social conflict. We hypothesized that negative emotions elicited by social conflict can be regulated extrinsically in a conversat…

From Frontiers in Emotion Science, this interesting study confirms what seems kind of obvious to anyone who worked with non-violent communication and been in imago therapy – when we respond to someone with empathy, in this case through paraphrasing a s…

In humans, the distribution of yawn contagion is shaped by social closeness with strongly bonded pairs showing higher levels of contagion than weakly bonded pairs. This ethological finding led the authors to hypothesize that the phenomenon of yawn cont…

That is where empathy and sympathy start—with the synchronization of bodies—not in the higher regions of imagination, or in the ability to consciously reconstruct how we would feel if we were in someone else’s “shoes.” And…

Contagious yawning in the monkeys may have its roots in empathy, which can help coordinate the emotions of a group..   For bonobos, yawning is contagious, but only between friends. Yawns spread more easily between family and close friends, and fro…

One principal shares about how she tries to cultivate empathy within her students, teachers, staff, and administration.   This journal is dedicated to the idea that in order for schools to be places that foster empathy in its students, the teacher…