Researchers claim that having experience of the same problems as someone else could make you even less empathetic to their plight. This is because we tend to forget just how difficult our own hardships were, and so we have less compassion for people dealing with the same problems
The importance of developing deep connections with the people you serve. A few years ago, my publisher asked me to write a book about innovation. They’d read some of the articles I’ve written on the subject over the years, and they w…
Scott D. Churchill is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas and Editor of The Humanistic Psychologist. His work focuses on development of phenomenological and hermeneutic methodologies. Currently he is studying interspecie…
Building empathy has been a critical strategy in my household of late—not only because it helps motivate them, but also because it is an important part of their social development. Lately I have been thinking about empathy on a larger scale, beyo…
Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen holds that cognitive factors are to blame for a great deal of destructive behavior. Evil and empathy are two immensely powerful things, needless to say. Throughout human history, empathy has been used as a natural anti…
