My medical school’s curriculum includes several lectures on compassion and empathy in the clinical setting.There has been much talk recently about the decline of empathy among physicians. Some have attributed this to a fault with the medical scho…

A generation ago, Israelis and Palestinians routinely rubbed shoulders. But they have become increasingly segregated and the current fighting has only added to the friction between Arabs and Jews.My NPR colleague Daniel Estrin witnessed this exchange a…

Studies have argued that empathy to the pain of out-group members is largely diminished by “in-group empathy bias”. Investigating the mechanism underlying the emotional reactions of Jewish Israeli participants toward the pain experienced by…

THE EMPATH is a recurring character in Star Trek, usually a woman, who has the ability to read the emotions of others, sometimes at great distance. Empath Deanna Troi, for example, is seen as having the seemingly futuristic and alien talent to feel wha…