This empathy/anxiety correlation has huge implications for our lives of faith and our relationships! Without empathy, we are unable to imagine what life is like for other people. Our ability for compassion is decreased.
Our likelihood of decreasing conflict and problem solving is also diminished. Empathy is a big deal. It requires letting go of defensiveness and criticism so we can enter into someone else’s story.
So how do we get rid of our empathy roadblocks
Emily Carson
The phenomenon is called “the cost of caring,” and it illustrates one of the unexpected drawbacks of empathizing with others: emotional distress.Rhiannon Smith, an associate professor of developmental psychology at the University of Connecticut, said t…
Progressive and conservatives have very different understandings of democracy. For progressives, empathy is at the center of the very idea of democracy.Democracy is a governing system in which citizens care about their fellow citizens and work through …
The researchers think the reduced neural empathy we show toward superior people is somehow linked to the way they make us feel bad about ourselves. Consistent with this, participants showed increased activity in the aMCC when looking at three-star play…
Empathy is the ability to recognize and relate to other people’s emotions and thoughts. Empathic thinking is often characterized as the willingness and ability to place oneself in another person’s situation, to feel another person’s f…
