Teaching a bully how to be more empathetic, like raising his self-esteem or his IQ, may just help them become a bigger and better bully. Many bullies score high on empathy tests.
In fact, they’re good at hurting you because they’re good at imagining what it might be like to be you. Evil, it seems, isn’t always, or even usually, a function of ignorance. What follows, of course, is that Socrates was wrong: education can’t save us.
John Faithful Hamer
Vital social skills are still changing dramatically in teens, new research shows. Adolescent males actually show a temporary decline in one form of empathy. Adolescent males actually show a temporary decline, between ages 13 and 16, in a related …
by Ariel Knafo,Some evidence points to humans being innately cooperative. Studies show that in the first year of life, infants exhibit empathy toward others in distress. At later stages in life we routinely work together to reach goals and help out in …
“Medical humanities is a way of sensitizing students and doctors and nurses to the experience of illness,” Stephen G. Post, the center’s director, said. “And that in turn builds empathy because you can’t have much empathy …
When the brain fires up the network of neurons that allows us to empathize, it suppresses the network used for analysis, a pivotal study led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher shows.How could a CEO be so blind to te public relations fiasco…
