The next time you mutter under your breath about the big gorilla in the next office, you might want to reconsider. The insult may reflect badly on you. Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal has spent decades studying chimpanzees and bonobos and found th…

Just before the holidays I finished the illustrations for a children’s book about empathy.  Even while the project was in process, I found the book to be a great teaching tool with the boys.  Who couldn’t use some help in the area of putting …

In this interview with Ruth Buczynski, PhD, I talk about the evolution of the brain and the development and neuroscience of empathy.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

He says the notion of empathy and human-centeredness is still not widely practiced in many corporations. “Business people rarely navigate their own websites or watch how people use their products in a real-world setting. And if you do a word associatio…