Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine, exposes the darker side of transitioning from the classroom to clinical medicine–students come in selfless and empathetic and leave jaded and embittered. M…

Below is a simple little graph of yourmorals.org data that I thought would be worth posting. Interest in politics is positively correlated with empathic concern in liberals/democrats and not in conservatives/republicans. It’s somewhat self-evident in p…

EMPATHY:  the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to another person’s feelings.  Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Confessions of a movie crier By Paul J. Zak…   So, why do we cry at movies? Cognitively, we know that the story we are watching is (usually) fictional and the actors are paid to play on our emotions. But still we can’t help it. I can understand…