In the study, the researchers, Elisa Demuru and Elisabetta Palagi, observed 12 captive bonobos for 3 months at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands. Observation sessions lasted 6 hours and took place in both the morning and in the evening. A to…

Even if guns were to vanish, the specter that haunts our young men would still hover in silence, darkly.A partial solution to these toxic circumstances could be a coordinated cultivation of what might be called an empathic habit. Most people surely fel…

A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person’s ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study published by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. This boost in empathic accuracy was detected through bo…

I believe that there is a deep and tragic reason behind Russian society’s attitude toward these events. Russians lack empathy for victims. They see any misfortune as a sign of weakness that does not warrant empathy.In Euro…