At the heart of Clinton’s troubles with Sanders are questions about her empathy, authenticity and honesty.
…Building a sense of empathy for voters – an emotional connection with working Americans – must be the Clinton campaign’s biggest priority as it re-introduces her to a skeptical public in the general election.
Failing that, the campaign is likely to revert to the path of least resistance: attack ads. Clinton and Trump are running equally poorly on issues of honesty and trust.
Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University, recently wrote a thought provoking (and emotion provoking) post on Boston Review, entitled, Against Empathy?.He writes about the downside of relying on empathy, particul…
Shame and vulnerability researcher Dr. Brené Brown has studied the power of these intensely painful feelings as a professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. By keeping quiet, Brown says your shame will grow e…
Often confused with pity, empathy might sound like a soft, fuzzy emotion that drains us of time and energy. Actually, it’s quite the contrary — it’s an incredibly valuable tool for today’s leaders. Brene Brown, a well-known sociologist and the author …
What happens in the brain when we feel for others? Neuroeconomist Brian Knutson of Stanford University studies meditating monks to explore what compassion looks like in the brain. “Reliably they like the art more if the faces they showed c…
