These are just a few examples of the many metaphors and frames used to powerful effect in this document.They have one thing in common, which they also share with the progressive value system: they are rooted in a worldview based on empathy.This is Empa…

This study was conducted for the primary purpose of discovering the relationship of two personal variables to effective seminary teaching.It was hypothesized that:(1) There is no significant difference between seminary teachers whom the department cons…

“We have created a culture of humiliation. There is another price tag to public shaming. The price is not measured in the cost to the victim but rather the price measured by the profit of those that prey on them. The violation of others is ruthlessly m…

Increased emphasis on empathy in the health care system holds big benefits for doctors and patients alike, medical experts say.Training doctors to be more empathetic can be tricky, said Danielle Ofri, a physician at Bellevue Hospital and associate prof…

Over the course of six years, I brought ambulatory psychophysiology into a variety of industries as a means of conducting design research. I looked at the stress of children in occupational therapy, the frustration of playing Hasbro board games, the th…

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb in his skin and walk around in it,” declares Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Gaining that kind of empathic insight is helpf…

Swedish scientists show that dogs empathize with humans.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

She is examining how Canadian youth experience empathy and how empathy affects young people’s conception of responsible citizenship, civic engagement, and social interactions.With the generous support of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the…

Rebeccah Nelems, a scholar of Sociology and Cultural, Social and Political Thought at the University of Victoria, is about to study just that: how youth today experience empathy.Recently awarded a Pierre Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for her w…