In humans and apes, yawn contagion echoes emotional contagion, the basal layer of empathy. Hence, yawn contagion is a unique tool to compare empathy across species.If humans are the most empathic animal species, they should show the highest empathic re…

Cooperation in social dilemmas is often challenged by negative noise, or unintended errors, such that the actual behavior is less cooperative than intended—for example, arriving later than intended for a meeting due to an unusual traffic jam. The…

Empathy makes you better at cocktail parties—and at life.What Ford describes is known, in research circles, as empathy. It sounds simple, but it’s actually counterintuitive: If we humans are locked in a nasty, brutish, and short struggle for reso…

The Keywords Project is a collaborative research initiative investigating ‘key’ words prominently used in social debate in English. Different meanings available for each keyword – varying both in specific sense and in evaluative implication – can…

In a speech to Catholic bishops from 22 Asian countries, the pope stressed the need to adopt a “creative” Catholicism that reflects the region’s diversity and that listens with “empathy” to its different voices.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compa…

In a speech to Catholic bishops from 22 Asian countries, the pope stressed the need to adopt a “creative” Catholicism that reflects the region’s diversity and that listens with “empathy” to its different voices.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compa…

ADDRESS OF POPE FRANCISTO THE BISHOPS OF ASIAHAEMI SHRINE17 AUGUST 2014(transcript of where he talks about empathy.)Nor can there be authentic dialogue unless we are capable of opening our minds and hearts, in empathy and sincere receptivity, to t…

And yet, as recent events with Mike Brown and Robin Williams have shown us, Conservatives today lack a basic empathy that makes them seem inhumane.  At a time when we as a nation should be coming together, time and time again we drift further apar…

The violence in Gaza has only empowered radicals, says a Palestinian professor who took his students to Auschwitz.What stands in the way of such a settlement, however, is the deterioration of empathy and trust brought about by the use of force.MOHAMMAD…

When Koko the gorilla heard about the recent death of Robin Williams, she broke down and cried. Are animals capable of being empathetic? Tara explains how a few different types of animals are capable of feeling the same emotions as humans! A new s…