Pain empathy involves conscious and unconscious processing of another person’s pain. It causes the activation of pain neural pathways and allows for recognition and understanding of an injury. It is also thought to provide motivation to ease suffering …

Stepping into other people’s shoes has been a catalytic force for social change throughout human history.You can always tell when a good idea has come of age: people start criticising it. That’s certainly the case when it comes to empathy.E…

In each experiment, those who reported lower levels of compassion and concern for other people – a key aspect of empathy – picked the utilitarian over the non-utilitarian response. However, other aspects of empathy, such as being able to see the p…

There has never been an international conference dedicated to scientific inquiry into compassion from multiple methodological perspectives. An adaptive pro-social emotion and a virtuous trait broadly condoned across humanistic and spiritual traditions,…