In a strange case, a woman developed “hyper empathy” after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case. Empathy is the ability to recognize another person’s emotion…

In the talk, Dr. Kristin Neff explains self-compassion. While I recommend you watch it yourself, here’s the gist: folks who practice self-compassion are good at treating themselves with kindness, especially when they fail or life is str…

The aim of this research is to advance scholarly understanding of declining empathy levels in the general population, in the context of narcissism – a personality variable that is rising in the population and is associated with low empathy. Empirical e…

The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. Two…