“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 room of her Brooklyn apartment
“But watching the philosopher in Ms. Jamison grapple with empathy is a heart-expanding exercise.”
This week’s video comes from Megan Daalder, an instructor at UCLA’s Art/Science Nanolab. Nanolab is a two-week program for high school students at the intersection of art and science. Daalder’s video tells the story about how o…
*Yaaawwwwwn* Did just reading the word make you feel like yawning yourself? Known as contagious yawning, the reasons behind this phenomenon have been attributed to both the physiological and psychological.It’s been observed in children as young as four…
Theoretical models of the role of empathy in sexual offending agree on five components relevant to the experience of empathy: – a respectful and compassionate orientation to others, – perspective taking, – affective responding, – the abilit…
Dr Underdown, lecturer in human evolution said aggression was important to our ancestors. Professor Stephen Hawking has said if he could alter one human shortcoming it would be aggression.He said the emotion was necessary in caveman days but now …
