Given our current understanding of how mirror neurons and human emotion works, a new study from the University of Duisburg Essen should come as no surprise. Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten and other researchers used fMRI to measure the r…

In a 2011 study for Social Psychological & Personality Science Journal, test subjects were asked to view a series of faces and then describe what emotion they saw in each face. The idea was to test their ability to imagine what another human is fee…

Could your doctor’s attitude hurt your health?   An intriguing new study demonstrates that physician sensitivity and empathy is associated with reduced clinical complications and improved outcomes among patients.   The study was lead by…

Higher Order Compassion Maintaining intimate connections that have been damaged requires that we go beyond the limitations of empathy (described in my last post) and reach for a higher order compassion for vulnerabilities we do not…