A recent study found that engaging in complex fictional narratives — like certain award-winning TV shows — can increase a person’s capacity for empathy.We all knew how important it was for Don Draper to find empathy in a stranger at th…

In every election campaign, we hear the word “compassion” at least a thousand times. One political party supposedly has it and the other one doesn’t. Big government programs are evidence of compassion; cutting back government is a sig…

What does it take to foster compassion in men? To find out, Kozo Hattori interviewed scientific and spiritual experts.I had promised myself that I would never lay a hand on my children, but here I was abusing my beloved son.========= I started wit…

ABC News Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who has yet to endorse a GOP presidential candidate, said today he thinks Mitt Romney needs to work on his empathy   Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who has yet to endorse…