Empathy: Have You Got It?If you believe effective communication is an important leadership skill, you surely can’t ignore empathy. That’s because empathy is a precursor to being an effective communicator. How? Empathy is about understanding…
Daily Archives: 22/07/2016
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Psychology has a golden rule: If I am warm, you are usually warm. If I am hostile, you are too. But what happens if you flip the script and meet hostility with warmth? It’s called “noncomplementary behavior” — a mouthful, but a powerful concept, and very hard to execute. Alix and Hanna examine three attempts to pull it off: during a robbery, a terrorism crisis and a dating dry spell.
To play the podcast: http://goo.gl/km5A4y
Jim Manske’s insight:
One of my favorite 21st century enhancements is the podcast. There are a few I enjoy. This one, moved me and inspired me, especially the first two sections. For me, this is another indication that the consciousness we point to when we use the “word” NVC is universal and unlimited in its application. As Marshall Rosenberg once said, “I’d rather have NVC than a gun.” Listen to the first 10 minutes or so of this podcast to gain your own insight into what Marshall may have meant.
Two researchers are calling for rigorous scientific exploration of MDMA (ecstasy) to identify exactly how the drug promotes strong feelings of empathy, according to a Commentary in the journal Cell. Such research may help researchers develop new t…
Empathy: Have You Got It?If you believe effective communication is an important leadership skill, you surely can’t ignore empathy. That’s because empathy is a precursor to being an effective communicator. How? Empathy is about understanding…
An increase in empathy—or, at least, an increase in people wondering what ’empathy’ meansLook-ups for empathy spiked sharply last night and this morning after Paul Ryan used the word in a speech on the second evening of the Republican National Co…
It’s tempting to dismiss empathy as the latest corporate buzzword…until you look at the numbers. Last year, the top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index—blue-chip firms like Facebook, Disney and Apple—increased in valu…
The researchers found that reading narrative fiction gave rise to significantly higher empathetic responses than it did while reading non-fictional books.According to the study published in journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a psychologist-novelist …