Participants, volunteers, and spectators took to the streets of downtown Modesto during the Haven Women’s Center’s first “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” held Saturday. The event was designed to create empathy and awareness of the paths women walk every day….

In recent research, Lisa Libby and I explored the phenomenon of experience-taking, the spontaneous process of assuming the identity of a character in a written narrative and simulating that character’s subjective experience (e.g., the character&r…

Objective: To evaluate a model that hypothesizes that empathy is associated with decreased right parietal lobe (RPL)-related self-orientation (i.e., increased selflessness), which allows individuals to more easily empathize with others.Methods:Particip…

“Developing empathy and building community should be at the heart of any high-quality early childhood program,” says Mary Sue Reese, director of the Winnetka Covenant Preschool. Social-emotional learning has been a focus for Chicago Public S…