UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner makes the case that a person’s ability to empathize is what helps him orher reach a position of authority. However, leaders lose empathy and related qualities like generosity and openmindedness the lon…

Ann Allegre, MD, director of medical programs for Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, since 1999, chronicles her personal story as a young physician and survivor of serious illness, culminating in her renowned work in palliative care and hospice.S…

Does science tell us that Tylenol is changing our personalities? The short answer is ‘no’. And learn about advances in transportation technology in this SciShow news.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Edinburgh Festival of Empathy will take place 12th-25th June celebrating the role of empathy in community and offers a variety of ways of exploring what empathy means and experiencing giving and receiving empathy.  We think Art is a very powerful …

What is the Empathy Toy?The Empathy Toy is a discussion based game where participants solve a puzzle based challenge using only words. See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Empathy – that is, the ability to understand and be aware of, co-experience the feelings and thoughts of other people, is probably one of the most important skills a person may have. And it’s not just for building and maintaining strong and…

http://wagerlab.colorado.edu/files/papers/anatomy.pdf Pain features centrally in numerous illnesses and generates enormous public health costs. Despite its ubiquity, the psychological and neurophysiological nature of pain remains controversial. He…

The experience of empathic pain is often described as being comparable to its physical counterpart (nociceptive pain), and so researchers have long suspected a functional connection between the two phenomena.

Evidence for the existence of such an association has accumulated over time, mainly through neuroscientific imaging studies but its defining characteristics have only recently started to come to light. For instance, a piece of research with important implications about the nature of the link between physical and emphatic pain has recently caught the public’s attention.​

Painkillers May Dull Empathic Pain

As we study and practice NVC, we learn that our ability to self-empathize is a requisite skill for living out our NVC consciousness in the world. Deep empathy, dialogue, mediation, teaching NVC, and perhaps most importantly, knowing what we want t…