Agronin kicked off the 9th annual Environments for Aging Conference in Baltimore (April 18-21) with an opening session on “Turning Empathy Into Action,” where he said thinking about older adults from one perspective and carrying negative associations w…

Empathy makes you better at cocktail parties—and at life.What Ford describes is known, in research circles, as empathy. It sounds simple, but it’s actually counterintuitive: If we humans are locked in a nasty, brutish, and short struggle for reso…

Kids are natural born narcissists. How can parent help them develop a sense of empathy and compassion toward others? Brian Gresko has a few suggestions. The first step toward building empathy is talking about feelings with your kid. For a yo…

Although I may be hedging my bets by opening my first ever blog post with a quotation, I consider it suitably apt for the topic of creating empathy within the museum space. I recently met Roman Krznaric (founder of the School of Life) who has created t…