A new study finds that empathy — the ability to understand and share someone else’s feelings — vanishes when people have different political views.   U.S. researchers asked the study participants to read a short story about a person — either …

DIGITAL EMPATHYThe idea of Quantified Us is not new, but I believe it’s the one to focus on. By using this self-tracking technology to not only understand ourselves (of course it is still good for that), but to also gain more insight into th…

When attention flows along power lines, empathy also takes a hit. When strangers told each other about divorces or other painful moments in their lives, there was more empathy expressed by the less powerful person. Another measure of empathy – th…

It should not come as a surprise to anyone that, as a strict materialist, I accept the standard neuroscientific model of consciousness. That means that everything we think, feel, remember, and do is a function of the brain. This includes the emotion of…