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The Empathy Gap
Daniel Goleman shows us how compassion repairs social inequalities in the world. This is an excerpt from his audiobook—A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World.
About A Force for Good
Daniel Goleman’s A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our Worldhighlights the Dalai Lama’s core beliefs, presents evidence that supports their relevance, and explains how these can be applied to promote a better future.
In part two of this brief four part video series from the Academy of Management Review, Prof. Jane Dutton discusses the future of care and compassion and how…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
Empathy-driven behavior has been observed in rats who will free trapped companions from restrainers. This behavior also extends toward strangers, but requires prior, positive social interactions with the type (strain) of the unfamiliar individual, repo…
This has made me think again about mirror neurons, sometimes referred to in Japanese as “monomane saibo” [“mimic cells”]. There is a hypothesis that these nerve cells are involved in empathy enabling us to understand the actions…
This is unlike the research conducted by the Monash neuroscientists who discovered the correlation between brain structure and empathy.They have hypothesised that we are able to alter this part of our brain, making it bigger or smal…
