Can teaching kids empathy change the world? That’s the idea behind the $100,000 prizes offered this summer by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in partnership with Ashoka Changemakers, a group that tries to promote and connect social innovat…

Narcissists are people maintain their self-esteem by drawing on the energy of other people. They thrive on the accolades of others and like to broadcast their achievements.  They also have difficulty in their social interactions, because they do n…

One of the core essences of what makes us human is our beautiful ability for empathy. Empathy is a potential psychological motivator for helping others in distress. It can be defined as the ability to feel or imagine another person’s emotional ex…

This is a promotional video for the kickstarter campaign to self-publish “Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making”, a book by Seung Chan Lim…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion