In this brief interview, Susan explains that we often think of empathy is “walking in others’ shoes,” but it’s much more — it’s a process of connecting. It’s not just 1-way, empathy means valuing and understanding… people… animals… even the whole planet.
also doing a class at;
http://www.6seconds.org/2014/05/21/empathy-adventure/
Children who cruelly disregard other people’s pain and psychopathic criminal offenders show dysfunction in similar brain regions— but new research finds that the changes may lead in opposite directions. Two new studies add to conflicti…
MIT neuroscientists are studying the patterns of brain activity that correlate with empathy. They hope to use their findings to determine how well people respond to reconciliation programs aimed at boosting empathy between groups in conflict, since com…
The Moral Dimensions of Empathy: Limits and Applications in Ethical Theory and Practice Hardcover – January 17, 2012Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as defin…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the New England Transcendentalists, was very influential for me as a teenager. I have found many of his essays and aphorisms to be very useful, both personally and professionally. The one pearl I have gotten the most mileage…
