According to accomplished economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, “what is required now is nothing less than a leap to Global Empathic Consciousness and in less than a generation if we are to resurrect the global economy and revitalize the bi…

He advocates for “empathic design”, in which a designer not only works in concert with nature, but with an understanding of and empathy for the end user and for ones self. It is not just one of these connections, but all three that are nece…

A new study of early humans has challenged one of the main tenets of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the idea of the survival of the fittest, by suggesting compassion and the ability to accommodate “defective” members of the community a…

Empathy is the foundation of therapeutic intervention. But how can you know if your therapist is or will be empathetic? Technology developed by researchers from USC, the University of Washington and the University of Utah can tell you.Leveraging develo…