Empathy in its simplest form is having the ability to walk in the shoes of another. Morality is our code of conduct – what’s right and what’s wrong. There are plenty of good and bad judgements that we make in life, that doesn’t require one to use empat…

Can you remember a time when you heard a baby cry, and suddenly a lot of other babies started crying? You may not have known it, but that was empathy.What is empathy?Empathy is when we try to understand someone’s feelings from their perspective, and th…

The Role of Empathy in DesignIn the design community, we often use the word empathy as if it’s a tool used for acquiring insights. We talk about interviewing, observing, role-playing, or otherwise finding a way to gather knowledge from users to p…

A new, riveting study from the University of Chicago, published in JAMA Psychiatry, has shown that people with psychopathy—who lack empathy, are likely to engage in criminal behavior and who are much more likely to be violent—have abnormal …