http://healthsciences.curtin.edu.au/index.cfm Press play, and meet “Jim”. Jim is a virtual reality creation, designed to simulate patients for health care se…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

On the Boston Review, Paul Bloom has a provocative article titled “Against Empathy.” It’s not advocating an uncompassionate approach to life, and in factIt is worth expanding on the difference between empathy and compassion, because some of empathy&rsq…

Empathy and kindness are core values of mine and of Jeremiah’s Hope for Kindness. In the past few years there has been an explosion of research exploring empathy and kindness.The results of these studies, demonstrating the importance of kindness …

I grew up selfish. Everyone in my family was selfish and competitive so it seemed normal. For most of my life I assumed everyone operated this way…. As the founder of Electronic Arts and creator of EA Sports, I am well-known for making video gam…

by Katie Brown and Nicholas Valentino. presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA)…Group empathy is the ability to see through the eyes of another, to take their perspective …

The idea of empathy as an important element in judgment is perhaps most aptly captured in Maimonides’ code of law, the Mishnah Torah.In a section describing the qualities of judges, Maimonides rules that “One may not appoint to the Sanhedri…

What can humble arguably even the most prominent surgeon in the country? In a word: empathyCleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove was recently tapped by President Obama to lead the troubled VA, and by some accounts, there are few others who are more qu…