As we use the tools of science to explore the nature of humanity, we are learning more and more about how our brains function and what motivates our behavior, built-in biases and blind spots.
These fresh insights are interesting scientifically, but they also evoke significant questions about our lived experience. These perspectives challenge our basic assumptions of who we are, both as individuals and as a society.
Atkins says this dynamic can help measure how empathetic a therapist is, which in turn helps rate the quality of care therapists deliver to their clients.Atkins has recently started the first trial run of the software, which entails collecting data fro…
Liberals, Haidt tells us, value care and empathy. But empathy can extend to either protecting people from bullying or to protecting them from a heart attack. In both cases the instincts are to protect, sympathize and valorize the pain of the oth…
..Over the course of decades, research has turned up all kinds of weird facts about empathy — where it’s regulated, how it works, and what makes some people hide their faces in agony during medical documentaries while others chill out on the couc…
Everyone knows that employees who are bullied at work are more likely to quit. But a new study from the University of British Columbia shows that it’s not only the victim who is likely to bail — the person’s coworkers are also likely to leave their jo…
