In the face of our current health care emergency caused by Obama himself, we get the empty-empathy-“I-feel-your-pain” speech. In the face of our current health care emergency caused by Obama himself, we get the empty-empathy-“I-feel-your-pain” sp…

As former Utah Republican Senator, Bob Bennett, lay dying, he called his wife and son over to his bed to express his last wish. I have learned many lessons in my studies of genocides on the macro level and bullying on the micro level perpetrated t…

What if there is something fundamental about empathy such that when we cannot act on it, we lose part of ourselves, perhaps even our humanity? What if we have unwittingly created a world in which we chip away at our capacity for empathy, and with it, o…

Perhaps not surprisingly, there’s research demonstrating that people are more likely to donate when they feel empathy for the recipient. This research builds upon the classic psychology research demonstrating that empathy increases the likelihood…