Literary fiction is particularly stimulating, prompting us to understand and feel empathy.Measuring this empathetic response, researcher Dr. Raymond Mar and a few others were lead by no other than Oatley, who were the first to use the “Mind of th…
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We conduct humane education workshops here in South Africa in communities that are down-trodden by crime, poverty and disregard for life – any life – all life.The upliftment of spirit that comes with the slow discovery by our workshop deleg…
The basics of social behavior come from the brain’s emotional system, which is an important contributor to empathy and morality from infancy through adulthood. Babies often cry when they hear another baby crying, because knowing that another pers…
People are not naturally tuned to empathise, yet empathy is what makes us human“Never criticise a man until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins,” is an old (Red) Indian proverb. Today in the customer care industry, we expect employees to …
10 Tips to Help Us Stop Stressing the Empathy Out of Our Kids1. Cut one activity to make room for play with friends.Sit down with your child and his calendar right now and ask: is there one extra activity that can be cut to free up time to connect…
10 Tips to Help Us Stop Stressing the Empathy Out of Our Kids1. Cut one activity to make room for play with friends.Sit down with your child and his calendar right now and ask: is there one extra activity that can be cut to free up time to connect…
As Christine Ma-Kellams of the University of La Verne and Jennifer Lerner of Harvard write in a study they have just published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, this belief has thoroughly penetrated the mainstream. “Indeed…
The key to gaining and keeping power, Keltner argues, is empathy, or being attuned to what other people are feeling. And that’s equally true whether we’re talking about middle schoolers or working professionals.Now for the insight that really rocked my…
The key to gaining and keeping power, Keltner argues, is empathy, or being attuned to what other people are feeling. And that’s equally true whether we’re talking about middle schoolers or working professionals.Now for the insight that really rocked my…
People in our studies didn’t even need to see others do anything in order to catch their kindness. In another follow-up, people read stories about the suffering of homeless individuals. After each story, they saw what they believed was the averag…