Among the cognitive training literature, meditation interventions are particularly unique in that they often emphasize emotional or affective processing at least as much as classical ‘top-down’ attentional control. From a clinical and socie…

With some relatively simple training, people can learn to be more compassionate, and such training increases people’s willingness to redistribute funds altruistically, according to an intriguing new study from University of Wisconsin re…

Men caught a yawn on 40 per cent of occasions, while women did so nearly 55 per cent of the time.In addition, studies in empathy suggest women are more sensitive than men to others’ emotions are so are more likely to mimic facial expressions.Thus…

Brain areas tied with empathy — the anterior insula, the anterior midcingulate cortex, the somatosensory cortex, and the right amygdala — were activated when less psychopathic inmates imagined others in pain. Not so much for the highly psyc…