What we will cover: If empathy is so great, why does there seem to be so little of it in the world?Can empathy be trained?Explore the secret underground history of empathy in such thinkers as David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Theodor Lipps, Sigmund Freud, Edm…

When it comes to increasing your capacity for empathy, the journey can be a lot like chasing happiness or love or any other elusive and sometimes fleeting emotion. Empathy might find you, but sometimes you just have to choose it.Science tells us that, …

What disrupts empathy?In the study by the Max Planck Institute, participants were paired up, and each person was shown an image that was either pleasant or unpleasant. At the same time, they were each given something equally pleasant or unpleasant to t…

Empathy makes us better, stronger human beings. Research shows fiction, in both literary and cinematic forms, greatly improves peoples capacity for empathy.This makes a lot of sense because truly engaging fiction permits us to step into a cha…

You can’t lead without empathy. Think about the worst bosses you’ve ever had. Chances are they were egotistical, terrible at listening and deeply insecure.They likely never exhibited compassion for others and were completely self-…