In a culture that emphasizes judgment, criticism, punishment and blame, the need to be heard and to matter are two of the greatest unmet needs. Smith teaches that true empathy meets those needs. Smith says, “People want empathy and not sympathy.” …

The ability to share others’ emotions, or empathy, is crucial for complex social interactions. Clinical, psychological, and neurobiological clues suggest a link between yawn contagion and empathy in humans (Homo sapiens). However, no behavioral evidenc…

For some reason this hit me hard when I woke up this morning and I felt a little compelled to offer a few tips on actually building empathy between one another. Fortunately I was a consumer researcher in another life, so I actually know a little bit ab…

Empathy is an ‘entering into’ the life world of another person, said the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin.Sometimes that entering into is easy. If the other person is someone we know well or someone we love, we have many entry points into th…