Empathy: Connecting with a multitude of diverse, demanding, and sometimes unpredictable constituencies is an inescapable reality of today’s world. This point was driven home time and again at Davos 2014. In a networked environment relationship man…

Many moral philosophers place empathy—or some close emotion, such as sympathy, compassion, loving kindness, benevolence, pity, or mercy—at the center of the moral life. Such emotions serve as the underpinning of morality, supplying the moti…

I remember the moment so vividly; even now, I get an achy feeling in my chest. I was ten years old, reading a book about World War II from the perspective of a German girl in Dresden. I was a voracious reader, particularly when it came to books about t…

My job title is Medical Actor, which means I play sick. I get paid by the hour. Medical students guess my maladies. I’m called a Standardized Patient, which means I act toward the norms of my disorders. I’m standardized-lingo SP for short. …

The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking …

At the Writing for the Soul conference, one of my six fiction classes will focus on creating immediate character empathy — in your novel’s first chapter.’Why create empathy? Because even in a plot-driven story, characters are&nbsp…