Torres and I sat in Anderson’s class as a part of the Shadow a Student Challenge, an initiative from IDEO, the Stanford d.School and the Hewlett Foundation that hopes to foster empathy between administrators and students. It’s the first par…

Giving prescribed does of ‘love hormone’ oxytocin to men suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can instill empathy and compassion in them toward women, reveals a study.  The researchers hope that in the future, oxytocin …

Empathetic doctors seem to understand what their patient is going through, which contributes to patient satisfaction.  Patients do better and are more satisfied with their care if they believe their doctor is empathetic, a new study suggests….

When hospitalists responded to patients with empathy, those patients experienced decreases in anxiety and rated their experiences with the hospitalist more positively, according to findings presented at the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting.&…

Researchers have been working on a brand new study based on prairie voles actually consoling their loved one who are feeling stressed, and based on the results of this study, it appears that the infamous “love hormone,” called oxytocin, is …

Can the neuroscience of empathy help to solve a problem as intractable as the Israel-Palestine conflict?That is the question that was considered by academics who gathered at the British Academy in London on 7 and 8 March to discuss how insights from re…

How a child interacts with the world is learned early on in their development, so how can we teach children to approach those around them from a standpoint of empathy instead of fear or hate?Introducing the first digital interactive e-book app from the…