Standing in the shoes of another, we are invited to see as they see, feel as they feel.
The Freeh Report on Penn State, highlights the “striking lack of empathy” on the part of university officials toward the child victims of rape and sexual assault. They engaged in a cover-up.
They forgot their mission, to “improve the well-being and health” of the young people in their care.
We would do well to stand in the shoes of the youths who were first assaulted and then abandoned.
By Frank P. Cervone
Talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama entitled “Human Compassion” given at the College of William & Mary’s Kaplan Arena in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, on October 10, 2012. His Holiness’s talk is followed by a question and answer session. (www.dalail…
A University of Michigan study of nearly 14,000 college students found that students today have about 40% less empathy than college kids had in the 1980s and 1990s. Michele Borba, an educational psychologist and author of Unselfie: Why Empathetic…
Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points behind Mitt Romney. Why is he tied? The empathy gap. On “caring about average people,” Obama wins by 22 points. Maintaining that gap was a principal goal of th…
Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes. “Our findings support the possibility that compassion and altruism can be viewed…
