If you’re a creative person, empathy can be your most powerful weapon. Why? Because practicing the art of empathy can enable you to solve real problems for your customers.Yes, empathy is an art. And, like any other of the arts, empathy needs to b…

I’ve thought for a while now that the concept of “empathy” most commonly used when talking about autism is excessively narrow.   Autistics — especially Asperger’s autistics — are often said to lack empathy, which usually means two things: we c…

The US president claims the ’empathy deficit’ is a more pressing problem than the federal deficit, but, says Mark Honigsbaum, empathy may be merely a product of changing scientific fashions. Although empathy has become something of a political buz…

University of Tokyo researchers Teresa Romero and colleagues published new research today (August 7th, 2013) that may bring us a step closer to understanding the science behind yawns. Their study, Familiarity Bias and Physiological Responses in Co…