Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Classic moral dilemmas are often defined by the conflict between a putatively rational response to maximize aggregate welfare (i.e., the utilitarian judgment) and an emotional aversion to harm (i.e., the non-…

New research highlights how humans can cultivate compassion. Empathy and compassion, similar to physical strength and academic skills, has proven to not be something you are necessarily born with but can be enhanced through studying, training, an…

A new study shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate — and in a relatively short time. Researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy People seem to become more sensitive to other people’s suffering, but this is chall…

A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, recentlypublished online in the journal Psychol…

Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes. “Our findings support the possibility that compassion and altruism can be viewed…

Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals’ capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may be systematically trained by testing whether (a) short-term compass…

A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, published Psychological Science, a journal…

Seeds of Empathy is designed for early child care settings to foster social and emotional competence and early literacy skills and attitudes in children three to five years of age, while providing professional development for their educators.See it on …

Is there a difference between compassion and empathy? We have compassion for, but we have empathy with. How much greater is the love we give, receive and hold fast when we risk fully feeling how the “other” feels? Empathy is that place in our heart and…