Stanford brought together educators and entrepreneurs at the first-ever Compassion and Technology Conference to discuss how to uplift humanity in a gadget-driven society full of distractions. Social entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists explore…

The 11 essays in Leslie Jamison’s extraordinary new collection, The Empathy Exams, are about pain. Her own – a heart condition, an abortion, struggles with alcohol, a violent attack on a darkened street – or that of others, such …

Trust, Empathy and Dialogue NetworkThe project was developed out of Naomi Head’s research on these themes undertaken as part of her ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on ‘Conflict, Dialogue and Ethics in International Relations: From the Responsibility…

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be …