For the last 10 years, I have been involved in researching the impact of meditation on health and well-being. When my colleagues at Stanford and at other universities started researching meditation, most of us expected that meditation would help with s…

New research is finding that oxytocin doesn’t just bond us to mothers, lovers, and friends—it also seems to play a role in excluding others from that bond. It’s been called the cuddle hormone, the holiday hormone, themoral …

Self-acceptance is one of our most difficult challenges, no matter how much meditation or therapy we’ve tried. In this FREE video event series, Tami Simon speaks with contemporary luminaries in spirituality, psychology, and creativity t…

Thank you for your wonderful feedback regarding our new audio learning course with Dr. Kristin Neff on the liberating power of kindness and self-care, entitled Self-Compassion Step by Step: The Proven Power of Being Kind to You…

Even if it turns out that some yawns can be explained through purely physiological means, yawning is also contagious for humans and other species. If someone watches someone else yawning, they’ll be likely to yawn as well. That means that there i…

Mattersight’s system, on the other hand, is more like “artificial empathy”: it takes the same stream of verbal input, and it extracts information about the speakers mood, personality, and interaction style. This is basically the same …

The authors show that eye contact and social touch are significantly related to patient perceptions of clinician empathy.  ..The relationship between nonverbal behaviors and patient perceptions of clinicians has been underexplored. The aim o…

Empathy feels good in the moment, but it is not always the best thing in the long run. Sometimes, an authentic response is better for you and for the person you’re trying to connect with. In today’s culture, we are expected to empathize with …

In the present times, being empathic is considered a very desirable attribute. We read and learn about its role in bettering any type of relationship, we try to assimilate tips on how to exercise it more and at the same time we construct a mental categ…