Why reading to children creates a more peaceful society overall. The family and educator’s work in helping a child build empathy to others cannot be underestimated as key to not only that child’s outcomes, but the outcomes of a peaceful…

From elementary through high school, research demonstrates a relationship between empathic abilities and effective teaching. When teachers are more empathic, the positive outcomes are significant: Improved academic effort, achievement, motivation, self…

Given the importance of empathy to my political worldview, I was surprised to read in a recent New Yorker magazine an essay by Paul Bloom presenting a “case against empathy” as providing a faulty basis for motivating pro…

Perhaps one of the most defining features of humanity is our capacity for empathy – the ability to put ourselves in others’ shoes. A new University of Virginia study strongly suggests that we are hardwired to empathize because we closely associat…