Misunderstandings and hurt feelings happen all the time, even more often online when you can’t see or hear each other, but Facebook wants things to go smoothly on its social network. So they are tapping some of the top minds at Yale and U.C. Berkeley t…

How to help a veteran bear the unbearable.   The closeness that empathy can create can also feel like one of its problems. It might feel too close to your patient’s overwhelming traumatic experience. To truly get a sense of another person&r…

Someone truly concerned about their own well being in the long run would see the benefits of empathy.This isn’t the first time I’ve written about empathy and won’t be the last. You might find my other posts that talk about empathy in various contexts h…

But we seem to be missing something here. With all of the focus on how individuals can combat bullying, we have forgotten the power of context and the social norms that set the precedence for bullying behaviors to emerge in the first place.We can’t jus…