This award-winning toy, which has been featured on TEDx, was originally designed with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind to bridge the communication gap between visually impaired students and their sighted classmates. It is now being us…

How can a wooden puzzle teach empathy?  Simple wooden toys, on the other hand, can provide a tangible experience to help players understand this web of skills holistically. The Empathy Toy is a 3D puzzle game which requires creativ…

Ruth Buczynski, PhD interviews Louis Cozolino, PhD about how the neuroscience of human brains interact with one another. Neuroscience is giving us insight into how our brains really work and provides us with practical information for our daily lives an…

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection,” Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, “for those communities which include the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish…

It’s the holiday season and I thought I would finish my last post for 2013 by discussing the “gift of empathy.” A wonderful colleague of mine at theMichael Palin Centre in London introduced me to the work of Dr. Brené Brown, an expert…

Social apathy may arise from deficient connections among emotional brain centers When most of us imagine someone in pain, we feel uncomfortable and want to help. Psychopaths do not: a callousness toward others’ suffering is the central featu…