Meet AGNES, the suit that makes you feel 75 years old…
You’ve heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit; now meet AGNES — the old person suit.
AGNES stands for “Age Gain Now Empathy System” and was designed by researchers at MIT’s AgeLab to emulate what it feels like — physically — to be 75 years old with arthritis and diabetes
Radical compassion is compassion with legs; radical compassion is a verb. Just as the Bible tells us in the Letter of James that faith without works is dead, also, compassion without concomitant action is a lifeless phenomenon.Many sincere aspirants ha…
Sympathy usually means entering into and sharing feelings that another person has verbally and intentionally expressed; empathy involves intuiting something unspoken, of which the other person may sometimes be entirely unaware… In my view, the…
Shane Jordan, an Education Environmental Practitioner and a qualified Early Years Practitioner, explains the importance of young children developing empathy towards animals and how to provide nurturing experiences for them to be able to do so: To …
A recent Greater Good article about anxiety and empathy triggered controversy among readers. But what does the science say?On Monday, we published a research brief, “How Anxiety Reduces Empathy,” that provoked some conversation an…
