Chumps so desperately want cheaters to show some compassion, to hold them, and say “everything is going to be all right.” But it often doesn’t play out that way, does it? What usually happens is that the cheater wants compassion from the chump. Te…

A new study suggests mindfulness meditation can help us overcome the “bystander effect. In the study, Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital assigned people with little or no …

Before the applause for Senator Portman grows too enthusiastic, let’s also note that his embrace of marriage equality reveals a fundamental failure of empathy in the first place. Empathy, noun: the action of understanding, being aware of, being s…