The idea of empathy has sparked a lot of interest in recent years, especially with the discovery that humans are neurologically wired to feel it. It is one thing to be aware of the concept of empathy and quite another to unders…
Daily Archives: 20/06/2014
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The kid wants to serve the volleyball, but his high school classmates ignore him. “Shut up!” he pleads, but they carry on—laughing as if he said nothing. He loses it, hurls the ball, storms out of the gym, and shouts, “I said, S…
Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature.It begins wit…
Stories and narrative art teach us what lies at the heart of being the Church.When Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan, he is reminding those listening that they have lost the ability to be empathetic.But why did Jesus need to tell a story to m…
Jonathan G. Kimmesa*, Anne B. Edwardsa, Joseph L. Wetchlera & Jerome BercikaIn this study, self and other ratings of dyadic empathy are proposed to predict relationship satisfaction. One-hundred and fifty-one individuals over the age of eighte…
In February 2014, film scholars Fincina Hopgood and Patricia di Risio co-convened “Try Walking in My Shoes: Empathy and Portrayals of Mental Illness on Screen” in conjunction with the School of Culture of Communication at The University of Melbourne,Th…
“Take your genius, your optimism, and your empathy and go change the world”. Melinda Gates http://gates.ly/SOyaqu See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
How project-based learning and a student-centered environment promotes plenty of opportunities for applying empathyCreative Collaboration. When students work together on projects, they practice problem solving and critical-thinking. A recent study of e…