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When we put ourselves in another
person’s shoes, we are often more
sensitive to what that person is
experiencing and are less likely
to tease or bully them.
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By explicitly teaching students to be more conscious of other people’s feelings, we can create a more accepting and respectful school community.
This week’s video comes from Megan Daalder, an instructor at UCLA’s Art/Science Nanolab. Nanolab is a two-week program for high school students at the intersection of art and science. Daalder’s video tells the story about how o…
Cultivating Empathy in Children and Youth By Arundhati Ray The day’s headlines are a roll call of violent acts that make no sense. Is the world going mad? No, say psychologists, we are simply losing the ability to empathize. Throughout the world,…
Toddlers think they’re the center of the universe, and although we can’t blame them — it’s totally normal and probably evolutionarily sound — it’s still natural to want them to show a gentler, kinder version of themselves ever…
In ancient China a person without feeling was considered as no person at all Mencius summarizes empathy: “When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two m…
