He said, “It is fundamentally important that we promote greater empathy in society and and not remain indifferent to our neighbour’s cry for help, including when he or she is suffering from a rare disease.”Amidst everything that every person is battlin…

Human beings create arbitrary barriers to exclude beings who aren’t like them. Human beings have justified their wars, slavery, sexual violence, and military conquests with the mistaken belief that those who are “different” do not exp…

TeachKind—PETA’s Humane Education Division—is working on an exciting new confidential initiative, and we need someone to help us bring our ideas to life! As PETA’s Empathy Center Project Manager, you will help us organize the development of…

I was studying empathy last night. We’ve been really trying to teach empathy over here and we are far from perfect. I’m reading that empathy is taught and shown by action. Empathy is shown in the way a parent responds to a infants cry or a toddlers whi…

The first is “increasing sensitivity”. It is fundamentally important that we promote greater empathy in society, and not remain indifferent to our neighbour’s cry for help, including when he or she is suffering from a rare disease.  We know that w…

A lot has been written about empathy as the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. I want to write about empathy as the cornerstone of successful counterterrorism.When many of us think of homeland security, we think in terms of being tough, assertive, …

When we put ourselves in another person’s shoes, we are often more sensitive to what that person is experiencing and are less likely to tease or bully them. By explicitly teaching students to be more conscious of other people’s feelings, we…

Toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A'”Overview: Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to bui…