Recent research shows those who have higher traits associated with borderline personality disorder have lower activity in the region of the brain that shows empathy.
Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition characterized by extreme emotional instability. A person with BPD may have trouble maintaining relationships, mood swings and other mental health disorders including anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.
Christina Kirchner
A new study suggests mindfulness meditation can help us overcome the “bystander effect. In the study, Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital assigned people with little or no …
Lessons from the Empathy Lab: Embracing the 4th R, unpacking empathy & the end of argument. Earlier this month, I found myself sitting in an industrial warehouse in Half Moon Bay, CA, joined by Ashoka Fellow Molly Barker, Henry De Sio,…
Support for building a global wordwide culture of empathy continues to grow.The ‘Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassions’ celebrates it’s Facebook Page hitting the 6,000 Supporters/Likes milestone. The total supporter…
Theory of Mind:Understanding others’ knowledge and beliefs.Baron-Cohen (1995) coined the term “Mindblindness” to Characterize the difficulty that people with autism have with reading the mental states of others: thoughts, feelings and…
