Dr Jeremy Howick (Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Services, University of Oxford) discusses empathy as part of an event organised by Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership.  Jeremy HowickSee it on Scoop.it, via Emp…

To give two examples, Shaun King, a prominent writer and activist wrote in the New York Daily News that “Donald Trump is a full-fledged bigot. If you support him, you are too”. Similarly, the social justice writer Arthur Chu has&n…

Laura Geggel, the Live Science reporter who tried on the suit in the video above, wrote afterwards that she “vowed to stop mindlessly walking so fast with my older relatives.”  But do empathy simulators like the R70i act…

Empathy is at the core of the moral life. Without empathy, a person is unable to make the mental and emotional transference to the other. For example, a psychopath is unable to feel the fear or the pain they are inflicting. Without empathy, we bec…

And it is not only professionals who feel it. Empathy fatigue could just as easily describe the modern style of parenting. It has become easy to mistakenly define good parenting through exhaustion, the sense that one has given everything to their child…

The Importance of EmpathyIronically, one of the reasons for why empathy is important comes from the effects of a lack of it. In my opinion, one of the biggest reasons why millions of people do not have access to basic needs such as water, electricity, …

“Empathy is the lens by which we measure and respond to others’ emotions,expressions, and feelings.”   However, for individuals with autism, it is difficult for them to understand the emotional and mental states of others. &…

Hardly can you find 10-year-old kids feel empathy towards other children. However, this one boy created Buddy Benches for his kids at school so that nobody feels alone during recess. His Buddy Bench led more than 2,000 schools to follow suit.Chris…