How important is our brain’s empathy circuit and what happens to society when it doesn’t work properly? We explored the subject in July with University of Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. His recent book is “The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty”.
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What is the antidote to the Me-Me-Me Era? Turns out teaching empathy — the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes and imagine how that person feels — to children as young as age 1 or 2, and continuing to both model and reinforce empathy unti…
This incredible experiment in using virtual reality to build empathy—the first step to engagement and action—could be groundbreaking. I am following closely, can’t wait to see how this evolves, and promise to report back along the way…
1. Compassion: According to this overview of the scientific literature by Nienke Endenburg and Ben Baarda in The Waltham Book of Human-Animal Interaction, “If there are pets in the house, parents and children frequently share in taking c…
Boys and men commit the vast majority of violent acts, from domestic violence to murder. We’ve got to get at the root causes. That’s what I realize on the last class of the Cultivating Compassion Training (CCT) course at Stan…
