This is why listening is one of the keys to mutually fulfilling relationships. Listening with empathy, the ability to hear, understand and communicate your understanding is at the core of our best interactions.Better listening equals better understandi…

In the last handful of posts, I have sought to demonstrate some rather uncomfortable and infelicitous things about our near-universal celebration of empathy. One is that it is based on a false metaphysical picture of human beings as weak…

Background: A deficit in empathy is reviewed to underlie troubles in social interaction of youngsters with autism spectrum condition (ASD) and conduct problem (CD). To date, no research has in contrast youngsters with ASD and distinct subtypes of CD to…

A new, riveting study from the University of Chicago, published in JAMA Psychiatry, has shown that people with psychopathy—who lack empathy, are likely to engage in criminal behavior and who are much more likely to be violent—have abnormal …