There’s been building evidence that a yawn’s ability to spread to others is somehow correlated with the ability to empathize — to pick up on others’ emotional states and imagine what they may be thinking or feeling.
Contagious yawning seems to increase starting around the age of 4 or 5 years, about the same time children start developing the ability to identify other people’s emotions, and it falls when those empathetic abilities also fall in old age.
by Amina Khan
We, the design community, talk (and write and speak) a lot about empathy.1 We lament theempathy deficit in our companies and clients and cry “something must be done about this.” We tout personas, empathy maps, experience …
The current study investigated whether fiction experiences change empathy of the reader. Based on transportation theory, it was predicted that when people read fiction, and they are emotionally transported into the story, they become more empathic. Two…
New research finds having a mobile device within easy reach divides your attention, even if you’re not actively looking at it.Afterwards, participants responded to a series of statements designed to measure “feelings of interpersonal connectednes…
SB 107, as introduced in this session at the Utah state legislature, attempts to clarify and strengthen Utah’s current laws regarding hate crimes.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
