A former Baltimore police officer emphasizes the need for empathy and criticizes the ‘us vs. them’ attitude common on police forces….After writing a series of tweets last week naming various instances of corruption he witnessed as a cop, Sergeant Woo…

Antianxiety medications can be enormously helpful to people bedeviled by severe anxiety — no doubt about that. But by tamping down anxious feelings, could it be that these so-called “anxiolytic” drugs are blunting our empathy and rend…

There is an income gap in America, but just as important is a compassion gap. Plenty of successful people see a picture of a needy child and their first impulse is not to help but to reproach.To break cycles of poverty, we have the tools to improve hig…

Among the cognitive training literature, meditation interventions are particularly unique in that they often emphasize emotional or affective processing at least as much as classical ‘top-down’ attentional control. From a clinical and socie…