When empathy isn’t nearly enough: Why the Syrian refugee crisis demands more than mercurial emotion
It took the tragedy of a forced migration—and chilling photos of a dead boy—to elicit anything like humanity.
Why must we wait for a wave of empathy in order for European and North American nations to open their borders to stateless migrants?
“Empathy calms the emotional brain so that we can perceive situations and interactions accurately and thoughtfully. With empathy, we produce our own natural stress-reducing chemicals that create calm, focused energy, allowing us to do and be our …
Is the introspection of self-help and therapy hurting our ability to empathise?Over the past century, self-help and therapy culture have emphasised constantly looking inward as a means of self-discovery and self-improvement. But are we really any bette…
Sherry Turkle Talks a lot about the role of empathySherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and cu…
We collect personally experienced success stories about empathy. These are stories in which empathy has decisively changed how we interact positively – in our professional life, in society and in our personal relationships.These stories we want to…
