The professor, who co-hosted a talk on journalism and VR at the convention, is also currently studying whether the medium creates a greater sense of empathy from news consumers than print or two-dimensional video.“There’s a huge amount of h…

Roman Krznaric, author of ‘Empathy: Why it matters and how to get it”, talks to us about empathy in the age of self interest.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Empathy’s useful, done right — like a voltmeter for relationships By Marsha Lucas, Ph.D….   In the scheme of “rewiring your brain for love,” one of the benefits of mindfulness practice when it comes to relationships could be thought of as acqu…

‘Empathy, accuracy and transnational politics’by Carolyn Pedwell, University of KentEmpathy, it would seem, has become a Euro-American political obsession.  Within contemporary liberal political imaginaries – from Obama’s p…