Trust, Empathy and Dialogue Network
The project was developed out of Naomi Head’s research on these themes undertaken as part of her ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on ‘Conflict, Dialogue and Ethics in International Relations: From the Responsibility to Protect to a Responsibility to Discuss?’.
Patients on the Nell Gwynne stroke unit are benefiting from therapy of a different kind. Every Wednesday Humphrey, the standard long-haired Dachshund, spends the morning in the day room where patients can visit him for a therapy session. Hump…
Posts about Neurobiology of empathy written by psychneuro Our ability to express empathy is vital for our emotional and social functioning and well-being. As humans we are evolutionarily social beings, and as many of us have come to realize …
The ability to experience several senses together creating a unique, compounded experience is referred to as synesthesia. It’s believed to affect about one to two percent of the population. People with mirror-touch synesthesia may have a heightened sen…
A new study shows why empathy doesn’t cross the political aisle. .. Led by Ed O’Brien, scientists from the University of Michigan crafted a study on inter-party empathy based on prior data on the emotion, which finds that our ability to em…
