When Koko the gorilla heard about the recent death of Robin Williams, she broke down and cried. Are animals capable of being empathetic? Tara explains how a few different types of animals are capable of feeling the same emotions as humans!
A new study in this week’s “PeerJ” examines the relationship between human and ape empathy.
Christian Keysers is professor and group leader of the Social Brain Lab at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. The lab explores the biological nature and neuroscience of empathy. Christian is author of ‘The Empathic Brain: How t…
Are children born good? Or do they develop positive traits such as empathy and altruism as they get older? The new field of infant morality studies aims to answer that question READ MORE ABOUT CHILDREN AND MORALITYUnderstanding How Children D…
Why reading to children creates a more peaceful society overall. The family and educator’s work in helping a child build empathy to others cannot be underestimated as key to not only that child’s outcomes, but the outcomes of a peaceful…
By Susan ScuttiThe social stress we feel when we are with strangers limits our ability to express empathy.Empathy — the capacity to share and feel another’s emotions — is known to be mostly absent in people with an Autism Spectru…
