When people hear the word compassion, they tend to think of kindness. But scientific study has found the core of compassion to be courage….
Compassion is not just about kindness or ‘softness’ and it is certainly not a weakness – it is one of the most important declarations of strength and courage known to humanity. It is difficult and powerful, infectious and influential.
And, crucially, is perhaps the only universally recognised language with the ability to change the world.
In recent research, Lisa Libby and I explored the phenomenon of experience-taking, the spontaneous process of assuming the identity of a character in a written narrative and simulating that character’s subjective experience (e.g., the character&r…
Fourth in a series of webisodes — excerpts from Dr. Ekman’s conversations with the Dalai Lama. Dr. Ekman and the Dalai Lama compare and contrast proximal an…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
What happened at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was almost the perfect storm. Combine an absence of leadership and an over-focus on cost-cutting, and to that add discouraged staff, and you have all the ingredients for disaster. With great anticipatio…
Empathy has been in the news a lot recently. It has been highlighted as an antidote to school bullying and gun and gender violence, and it has become popular in the business community as a part of user-centered design. More and more, empathy is being r…
