A key theme of the symposium is the emotion of empathy. Speakers are invited to examine the ways in which the viewer’s empathy is elicited (or not) by the portrayals of mental illness on screen. In addressing this theme, paper/workshop topics may…

Empathy is a curious, human capacity that pervades the worlds of both art and design. In part two of Seung Chan Lim (Slim)’s three-part series, we explore how we, as designers, can realize empathy.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

A new study on empathy at the University of Virginia is shining a light on how our brains understand friendship. Researchers set out to answer the question, how does the brain create a map of ‘the self’ and ‘the other’? To find out, th…

You’ve probably known since around kindergarten (if not earlier) that some people are just more emotional than others. It’s not just a gender thing, either — there’s always a weepy boy and that stone-faced girl. New research sug…