Monkeys DO show empathy: Macaques make more eye contact when acting ‘kindly’ and care about how their peers are feelingFrench researchers paired up monkeys to study empathetic behaviourExperiment involved treats of juice and punishing ‘airpuffs’It show…

This is the first of a series on Designing for Clinical Empathy,An over of clinical empathy, how it can influence patient outcomes for the better and being implemented in different types of care systems.Clinical EmpathyWhat this comes down to is a conc…

Erosion of EmpathyDevelopmental psycho-pathologist Simon Baron-Cohen put forward the idea of empathy erosion, which one can use to more deeply examine various psychological types such as psychopathy and autism. We all lie somewhere from high …

Meg Lyons is Executive Officer of the Charter for Compassion in Pakistan. Meg talked to us via her laptop while being driven through the streets of Karachi, Pakistan at night. It really brought home the power of communications technology to bring peopl…