“Fiction might be the mind’s flight simulator,” Keith Oatley wrote in a new review of the research on reading and mental health, published Tuesday in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Research into the psychological impact of literature suggests that when we read stories in which characters are rich and developed, we actually slip into those characters ourselves. By taking on these other personalities, we learn what it’s like to be someone else, and improve our own social skills.
Meet Dr Barbara Markway! She’s a psychologist who did a 1 year self-compassion project.Please tell us about your self-compassion project.I loved Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, and I thought the idea of focusing on one thing for an e…
Experts have long noted that both autism and antisocial personality disorder are marked by problems with empathy, yet the differences between the two conditions couldn’t be starker. Autistic people are anxious and misread social cues, but …
According to a new study, elephants can feel empathy and even comfort one another in times of stress.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
I believe sin creates a hardened heart and creates in people a selfish mentality that becomes hardened to the plight of others. With a sanctified heart for God, and with our sins taken away by Jesus, we can soberly take notice of the burdens of …
