by Kristie WangThe David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Ashoka Changemakers have announced the six winners of Building Vibrant Communities: Activating Empathy to Create Change! The challenge sought local initiatives that tap the power of empath…

A Cambridge University study by Maria Nikolajeva, professor of education, found that “reading fiction provides an excellent training for young people in developing and practising empathy and theory of mind, that is, understanding of how other peo…

Women may be better at empathy than men because of the effects of testosterone on the brain. A new study has revealed that women who had been administered high doses of the hormone took longer to identify emotions and made more mistakes than those who …

It’s no secret that I spend a lot of time thinking about, practicing, and spreading empathy. Jeremy Rifkin’s The Empathic Civilization anchored my praxis with the thesis: Preserving humanity and the biosphere require empathy.According to Rifkin, this i…