Dr Federica Meconi has won a prestigous Marie-Curie grant worth over 183,000 Euros for a two-year project to explore how memories shape empathy for others.
Sharing others’ emotions is something that individuals experience every day. This happens when a friend is happy or sad but also when encountering strangers who share an experience they just lived; this is what happens to clinicians or social workers, for instance.
LewisWe started with a brainstorming session about our research. We took our notes and refined and organized them. Next we moved on to write out our design challenge and we voted on one “How Might We” question per each group of notes/issue …
Pinker wrote that greater empathy is one of the big reasons for a decline in violence in this very populated planet. While the media makes it easy for us to see and hear about torture and brutality from around the world in seconds, that same media give…
Author and empathic life coach, Jennifer Soldner notes that a sign of empathy in children can be extreme moodiness. Unfortunately, we live in a world where bullies exist online as well as on the playground. Because of this, you definitely want to …
Empathy is a day-to-day struggle of sorts, a test of our compassion and capacity for listening with understanding. It pushes us to break from the limits of our own stories, our own biases, and see someone in a different light. As I’ve grown up th…
