Dogs catch yawns from their sound alone, new research indicates. They also catch their owner’s yawns easier than those from others, supporting the theory that contagious yawns are empathy-based and emotional in nature, the researchers say…
Previous research has linked contagious yawning to empathy (the ability to understand and interpret another’s emotions) in humans. They’ve shown that people who perform better on empathy-related tasks also contagiously yawned more.
Cultivating empathyThe sobering news is that changes underway in higher education are moving us away from the goal of creating a culture that nurtures empathy.For example, if the culture surrounding us truly shapes our capacity for empathy, then colleg…
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A new study brings hope to human nature. Despite all the craziness in the world, from energy corporations destroying the planet to the Islamic State, the majority of us can rest easy knowing most of us aren’t part of the greedier, selfish minorit…
For some reason I’ve been having a lot of conversations about empathy recently. Empathy has been defined in the scientific journals as ‘I feel with you‘, as distinct from compassion, which has been defined as ‘I feel for you&rsq…
