Christian Keysers is professor and group leader of the Social Brain Lab at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. The lab explores the biological nature and neuroscience of empathy.
Christian is author of ‘The Empathic Brain: How the Discovery of Mirror Neurons Changes our Understanding of Human Nature’.
One trait today’s companies look for in their salesforce is the ability to empathize with a customer. These salespeople drill down to a customer’s needs. They ask the question: why does this customer need our product or service? They go out…
As former Utah Republican Senator, Bob Bennett, lay dying, he called his wife and son over to his bed to express his last wish. I have learned many lessons in my studies of genocides on the macro level and bullying on the micro level perpetrated t…
After spending most of my professional life in the conflict resolution field, I have to admit to experiencing a growing frustration with the state of the field in recent years. There have been times when I have felt that various par…
“I was not minimizing difference, but emphasizing the invisible connection empathy enables, a thing so central to the fact of being human, and what art can do: convey another person’s experience,” Streep wrote.The furor over her comments&nb…
