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When we humanize our enemies, our resilience grows and we suffer less…   In order to be in empathic dialogue, I must be able to imagine being the other person. It’s a deep discipline for me. It requires me to overcome the righteous pleasure of w…

Public figures from President Obama to Neil deGrasse Tyson have suggested a lack of empathy is one of our species’ fundamental problems.”Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes,” wri…

Chimpanzees may reinforce social bonds by involuntarily mimicking a fellow chimp’s pupil size.Like humans, chimpanzees possess a capacity to unconsciously dilate their pupils to match those of a conspecific, according to research published last w…