Misunderstandings and hurt feelings happen all the time, even more often online when you can’t see or hear each other, but Facebook wants things to go smoothly on its social network. So they are tapping some of the top minds at Yale and U.C. Berkeley t…

Compassion begins with empathy. Empathy evokes thoughts and feelings that acknowledge and connect with the suffering of others (I know how you feel). Fortified with empathy, compassion calls forth the intent and actions to help alleviate that suffering…

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“The connection to the emotions of others, which I call empathy, for example, is very developed in the mammals, but there are now studies on birds, and I’m actually involved in a study on fish believe it or not,” says de Waal,  “…