Bronislaw Malinowski with natives on the Trobriand Islands (1918 -source). Pro-social behavior seems to be a human universal, but is the same true for full empathy? What is empathy? It has at least three components:pro-social behavior, i.e., actio…

Is it possible for a young medical student to understand a patient’s experience? Or the day-to-day life of a person with a chronic illness? In ‘Healthy Privilege’ – When You Just Can’t Imagine Being Sick, Carolyn Thomas observes that “w…

Arturo Bejar is trying to create empathy among teenage users to curb cyberbullying and harassment.Creating empathy on Facebook has not been easy. Researchers have learned that a few letters can have a profound impact. For example, in the first iteratio…

Dipping into the vast  literature on clinical empathy, one quickly discerns the dominant storyline. Everyone agrees that empathy, while hard to define, hovers around a kind of physicianly caring that incorporates emotional connection with patients…