A professor at the University of New Hampshire who studies school violence says teaching our students civility and empathy can help make schools safer for kids.Malcolm Smith is extension professor at the UNH Department of Education. He worked with…

Recognizing that “Knowledge of the factors influencing attitudes toward animals has implications for prevention and intervention in cases of cruelty,” researchers from Hofstra University and New York University examined how empathy and personality trai…

Librarians are peddlers of empathy. We understand that reading is a chemical reaction between reader and writer producing a visceral engagement with the characters that allows us to live the lives of others, if only for for the space of a novel.We know…

An understanding of factors that enhance empathic parenting behaviors is of considerable importance to the study of child development and to the development of parenting interventions to promote child adjustment. Moreover, gaining a better understandin…