He considers empathy — the ability to truly put oneself in the shoes of another — to be a vital but neglected human capacity. “I absolutely believe that empathy can be taught,” he says, citing the success of a programme for Can…

The experience of empathic pain is often described as being comparable to its physical counterpart (nociceptive pain), and so researchers have long suspected a functional connection between the two phenomena.

Evidence for the existence of such an association has accumulated over time, mainly through neuroscientific imaging studies but its defining characteristics have only recently started to come to light. For instance, a piece of research with important implications about the nature of the link between physical and emphatic pain has recently caught the public’s attention.​

Painkillers May Dull Empathic Pain

Punitive discipline denies children the opportunity to reflect because we teach them to look outside of themselves for direction and to seek approval from others instead of acting authentically from a morality which is developing with em…

Ted Talk Video http://j.mp/1FYkTkB Imagine walking a mile in someone else’s headline: “With every click we make a choice,” says Lewinsky. She wants to see a “cultural revolution.” “Public humiliat…