As teachers, we strive to push each of our students to his/her full potential. We have the responsibility to educate each student academically, emotionally, and socially. In my classroom, the single most important thing I can teach my students is empat…

“The importance of social bond in shaping yawn contagion demonstrates that empathy plays a leading role in the modulation of this phenomenon,”   Contagious yawning is also seen in monkeys and great apes. Indeed, this new study replicates similar f…

It’s not so much a storybook as it is a guide for its reader. It’s a litany of ideas and examples through which children can stretch theirempathy. Simple, every-day ways. At home, in school, in their communities. Through acts of kin…

By now you have probably already suspected that your super-high empathy is what got you in trouble in this pathological relationship. But, did you know there is hard science behind what we suspected about what is going on in your relationship with your…