Filmmaker Craig Cunningham suggests that good intentions often lead us to over-empathize when listening to another’s story.
His suggestion: listen with curiosity and recognize that, even when deeply identifying with a story, another’s experience is wholly unique – to them – and there is much to be learned when we just listen.
Empathy in leadership is one of the most important factors influencing workplaces today. A lack of empathy in leadership can have dramatic consequences for staff and teams, leading to behaviour that makes the workplace unpleasant.Given that one of the …
Nobuya Sato, Ling Tan, Kazushi Tate, Maya OkadaHelping behavior is a prosocial behavior whereby an individual helps another irrespective of disadvantages to him or herself. In the present study, we exained whether rats would help distres…
A baby’s preference to stare at an object, instead of a person’s face, may predict a lack of guilt and empathy as well as difficulties understanding emotions during toddlerhood. It is known that the deepest, most primitive parts of our minds…
Designed primarily for the classroom and initially used to train professional counselors, the practical exercises for acquiring empathy skills contained in this book can be used for the benefit of students, couples, families, and people in counseling a…
