http://www.compassionatelistening.org/trainings/schoolsThis is part 1 of a 14-minute video made by the students at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School in Louisville, KY, where Compassionate Listening is being taught.Award-winning seventh grade science …

Why do some people risk their lives to help others? Kristen Renwick Monroe has dedicated her career to finding out. Whether this kind of limited intervention will foster the kind of heroic altruism found in World War II rescuers is another issue, …

Yawns aren’t contagious to puppies, but they are for grown-up doggies.   Contagious yawning is important because it may indicate empathy, a trait that is contested in non-human animals. Lund University researchers Elainie Alenkaer Madsen and Tomas…

One of the most overused and abused terms is “empathy.” It has reached epidemic levels and is killing us.As is true of many aspects of modern politics the problem started with Bill Clinton.  In his 1992 campaign statement he emoted, &l…