Now, empathy is needed on climate change.A gap, not in missiles, but in empathyKrznaric finds an empathy gap across space — Third World nations like India are already suffering from climate crises worse than the rich countries whose emissions are…

It’s our first column for 2014 and it’s fair to say that Barry and I are aiming straight and unabashedly for the heart with Roman Krznaric’s Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution.There’s sound reason why one of Britain’s leading ‘cultural thinkers’ w…

Compassion, empathy, altruism and kindness are positive qualities we intuitively want our children to have, helps a child be successful in life and, research tells us, can be deliberately fostered in families, schools and communities. Teaching these qu…

Empathy — the ability to share someone else’s feelings — is perhaps the most important trait humans demonstrate. It’s not a purely human attribute — in fact, even rodents possess it — but humans are particularly good at it.It al…