The Autism team created the Empathy Box, a collaborative storytelling tool to build empathy for families affected by autism.  They had originally focused their project on the design of learning spaces for children with autism.  However, throu…

Do you believe it is possible to suffer from too much empathy? I take an antidepressant, but I still have to avoid certain movies, news stories, people, and music to prevent the feeling of a relapse. When the feeling does happen, I have to really focus…

Mary Beth Oliver is a Penn State Professor and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, as well as, a member of the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies. She is co-author of Media Effects Advances in Theory and Research. We talked ab…

Empathy can be helped, or hindered. Authors call for an “empathy epidemic” to address violence, bullying, child abuse, racism and other inequities.Part of emotional development is the development of empathy, which is defined as the abi…