Can you cultivate compassion? Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison seem to think so—and with good reason.Their study, published in Psychological Science, hypothesized that compassion can be taught and boost a person&rsq…

by Kate Thieda,  Brown explains that empathy is a skill that strengthens with practice and encourages people to both give and receive it often.By receiving empathy, not only do we understand how good it feels to be heard and accepted, we also come…

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…

Part of building empathy in your business means creating and managing open channels of feedback. Here’s how to do it. In a previous post I explained what it means for businesses to scale empathy and why it’s important. I lai…