MIT neuroscientists explore how longstanding conflict influences empathy for others.   MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long been drawn to conflict — not as a participant, but an observer. In 1994, while doing volunteer work in South Africa, h…

Courtroom sketch of Judge Shira Scheindlin. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams) A decision is imminent in New York’s historic stop-and-frisk case, tried for two months in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Empathy does play a greater role where a jud…

Empathy is the capacity to enter into the hidden desires and unspoken needs and pains of people who are not from your tribe. It allows us to take seriously what might it be like to be someone else. Empathy is also a crucial factor in the grow…

Amaryllis Fox’s secret life in the CIA taught her one lesson: Listen to your enemy. As she begins the process of having her CIA cover rolled back, this is the first time she has spoken publicly about working undercover. See it on Scoop.it, via Emp…