Our ability to sympathize and empathize with each other has been regarded by scientists at Warwick Business School as genealogic traits derived from the likes of our closest neighbor, the chimpanzee. Some aspects of human emotion are so …

For the father of a child with cancer, reality can be a lot to bear. When Ryan Green’s son Joel was first diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of the disease, Green turned to something that he knew could give him some relief: video games.’Empathy game…

Children with conduct problems such as aggression, theft, and cruelty have atypical neural responses to images of other people’s pain, researchers reported. Children with conduct problems such as aggression, theft, and cruelty have atypical neural…

..I read in the blogosphere that parents should teach children empathy. No, we shouldn’t.   Children have empathy; the best way to educate it is to utilize it. As Beth and all other good educators know, empathy is one of their greatest abili…