By SHAHRAN MASOOD, John C. Maxwell once said, “People don’t care what you know until they know that you care.” However, in this modern day and age where everything revolves around “me-ism”, is there a place left for empathy …

In recent blogs, conferences and unconferences, there has been a good deal of emphasis on the importance of empathy in a business environment. And although empathy is definitely important, I just refused to believe that it is the holy grail that will a…

The greater the empathy skills of children, the easier it is for them to recognize sarcasm, according to a new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. For children, sarcastic language can be difficult to understand. They gen…

One person’s empathy is another’s countertransference. I will not confess my weaknesses, since they will be obvious to the reader in any case.The short – very short – definition of “countertransference” is one’…