Mennonite Educational Institute secondary school students took part in the Run for Water Empathy Walk Friday.
The event saw about 500 students walk from the school over to Fish Trap Creek, where they each filled a yellow 20 litre jerry can with water. The group then walked over to High Street, at Mt Lehman Road and Highway 1 with the cans
to empathize with the plight of Ethiopian women who do this everyday without choice.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world. Dr. Richard J. Davidson, founder of the …
A conversation between Frans de Waal, author of “The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society,” and Carl Zimmer, Discover magazine. For more inf…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
“Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies,” Frans de Waal… Until just 12 years ago, the common view among scientists was that humans were “nasty” at the core but had developed a veneer of morality — albeit a thi…
It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we first launched the Empathy Experiment, a social experiment among Capital University students and partner organizations from the Central Ohio community centered on a single issue to answer a b…
