An increase in empathy—or, at least, an increase in people wondering what ’empathy’ means
Look-ups for empathy spiked sharply last night and this morning after Paul Ryan used the word in a speech on the second evening of the Republican National Convention. “Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection,”
Ryan stated. “It’s respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference.”
We are now planning, organizing and launching a one year online international conference on the question of, ‘How Can We Build a Culture of Empathy and Compassion?’ The conference consists of an ongoing series of online Panel Discussions …
Maybe toddlers should replace judges. Young children apparently have an innate sense of justice, and they’re more interested in setting things right than in punishing wrongdoers, researchers have discovered.Children 3 and 5 years old who watched differ…
Gillibrand insisted that the problem is Congress, which lives in a “bubble” and doesn’t “have a lot of empathy for regular working families.” GILLIBRAND: The issue is, people in Congress are in a bubble and they don’t have a lot…
From Boko Haram to Raif Badawi to Charlie Hebdo, the media influences how much we careAs massive support rallies took place around the world, and an overwhelming number of people replaced their social media profile pictures with the eponymous Je s…
