Yawning when you see someone else yawn is thought to signal empathy. About half of all people do it contagiously. Now researchers have confirmed what many pet owners have long suspected: Dogs, too, are contagious yawners.In a series of experiments carr…

It’s not hard to understand why patients might value empathy in medicine.“Who doesn’t want to have a physician who understands what they’re feeling? Everybody wants that. Everybody feels in their gut that is important,” sa…

Surveys show that people have less empathy for battered human adults than they do dogs, according to a paper at the American Sociological Association…”Unlike survey research, experiments usually employ a homogenous sample in order to establish a caus…

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar’s amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and …