Over lunch on the Upper East Side, Maia Szalavitz, science blogger for Time.com and co-author, with leading child trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, of Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential—and Endangered, explained why empathy needs bette…

Tired of being maligned and blamed for the world’s problems, Satan hires a public relations firmto improve his image.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

By Johnnella E. Butler, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Spelman CollegeIf identification with the human condition is a fundamental learning outcome for students of the arts and humanities, these disciplines can act as wellsprings of em…

“Society needs to undergo an empathic revolution if we are to survive as a species” says Anita Nowak of McGill University.There is a spectrum of empathy, says Nowak, with pity at one end, empathy at the other and compassion and sympathy som…