You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb in his skin and walk around in it,” declares Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Gaining that kind of empathic insight is helpf…

Teaching EmpathyAlthough the best training for empathy begins in infancy, it’s never too late to start. Infants and toddlers learn the most by how their parents treat them when they are cranky, frightened, or upset. By the time a child is in pres…

Distracted driving, victim empathy and community outreach were the topics of a lecture given by Anapol Schwartz equity partner, Joel Feldman.   Anapol Schwartz attorney Joel Feldman spoke about distracted driving at the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers …

This week on Hidden Brain we ask, what happens when you empathize with your enemy? Why does reaching out to another tribe make our tribe so angry? We talk to Avner Gvaryahu, a former paratrooper in the Israeli army, who angered his fellow Israelis for …