Unity is the way. But we’ll never get there without empathy.
In the days following the horrific ambush in Dallas that killed five police officers, many of our leaders have spoken out against divisiveness and called for Americans to rise above our differences.
His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama, launched the first-ever World Compassion Day at an event in Mumbai on Wednesday. The programme was organized by the animal rights group Humane Society International (HSI) and Pritish Nandy Communications. Urging the …
Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has be…
ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Are humans unique as creatures which exhibit moral behaviour? Experiments with apes and other animals are convincing researchers that humans aren’t the only animals to act in moral ways. T…
We are wired to read each others’ bodies. Not just in terms of physical appearance but at a subtler and more complex level that lies at the root of lasting love, empathy and social connection. This process is called “resonance” and it is s…
