There are broken links in the areas of the brain responsible for emotions such as empathy and guilt which is why psychopaths behave the way they do, researchers discovered.   MRI scans of prisoners showed physical differences in the brain, mainly…

Curling up with a good book pays off BIG-TIME.In even greater news, science proves that bookworms are more empathetic than non-readers.The New Yorker highlighted a study published in The Annual Review of Psychology wh…

From human-centered design to the lean startup approach, methods to develop innovative products and services emphasize the importance of understanding what customers really need. Here are some lessons in innovation that social entrepreneurs have learne…

We often think of empathy as an automatic process. However, empathy is often context-dependent. Our willingness to empathize with others changes with different situations and with different people.A new paper by Jamil Zaki resolves this tension by unde…