Empathy is an important skill for getting along with others and living a successful life. Here are some tips on teaching children how to develop empathy. What Is Empathy?  A 4-year-old girl playing on her preschool playground fell, skinned h…

Known as artificial empathy, the idea here is to train machines to recognize social signals from humans, aka ‘visual data,’ and then produce an appropriate response. The emergence of social signal processing as a branch of computer sci…

Studies suggest that all of these skills can be taught or encouraged. For example, discussing the emotional content of stories has been shown to increase empathy in school-age children, as does getting children to practice imagining how other…

Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode Animals And Us. About Frans de Waal’s TED Talk,  Empathy, cooperation and fairness seem like distinctly humanRAZ: And if an animal intuitively understands reciprocity, then maybe, just maybe, that animal unders…