A new book argues that selflessness, not selfishness, creates more genetic success.But according to physicist and science writer Stefan Klein’s new book, the idea that we are born to be selfish is dead wrong. In Survival of the Nicest: How A…

You probably hear the word empathy a lot. You probably also think it means, “the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.” That’s actually the definition of sympath…

Dr. Anita Nowak, Director of the Social Economy Initiative, McGill University  Here’s a video of my friend  Anita Nowak giving the keynote address at an Empathy Conference at University of Minnesota at Duluth.She starts off by saying, “…

26 June 2012 A three-year trial of a ‘culturally-grounded’ prevention program in 12 Chicago schools has highlighted the value of emotional education as a key to reducing violence and delinquency.   The researchers found that children who particip…