“So much of writing that has felt alive and electric is because I grant myself permission to write about what’s obsessing me,” the author of the best-selling “The Empathy Exams” said during a recent interview in the living…

It’s not a word often heard in politics and on the news, but “empathy” is something that today’s leaders might want to cultivate — at least, so says performer and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. In an upcoming workshop in San Francisco, Smith aims to t…

From On Being, Krista Tippett’s excellent NPR show (which frustratingly does not air locally as far as I know), an interview with Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author, Roshi Joan Halifax, the founder, Abbot, and head teach…

Empathy and attention skills less developed in preterm kidsCartoon characters used to gauge kids understanding of social conventionsResearch turns to working memory and response timesLOCAL research has confirmed children born extremely prematurely or &…