Anna Lacey, the new clinical director of the Community Mental Health Hub in Sonoma, has an impressive professional background in the mental health field, but her personal touch with clients is perhaps ...

The right temporoparietal junction is causally involved in how we perceive and understand other people’s pain. When you see someone else fall off their bike, you can feel the other person’s pain ...

Empathy is more than a buzzword—it’s a foundational skill. The ability to recognize and understand others’ emotions—and to respond in ways that are constructive and caring—can help adolescents build ...

As shocking as Musk’s views are, however, they are far from unique. On the one hand, there is the familiar and widespread conservative critique of “bleeding heart” liberals as naive or overly ...

Empathy is the ability to recognize and understand what another person, animal, or even a fictional character is thinking or feeling. It is an attempt to identify with someone else's situation, ...

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Empathy is one of many skills that help us build better relationships. When we resonate with people’s feelings, consider their perspective, or feel compassion for them, we are more likely to be ...

In an interview this year with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk quipped that “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” He seemed to blame it, in part, for the decline of America’s cultural ...

As Americans anxiously await the final results of a presidential election that remains too close to call, one thing appears abundantly clear: We still haven't learned to reliably predict how the ...

Large group of business people sitting on a meeting in the office and having problems. Empathy isn’t a nice to have anymore; it’s a business essential. In a volatile market, organizations that ...

For decades, we've been told that autistic people lack empathy. This assumption is embedded into diagnostic criteria. It shapes how society views autism and how autistic people are represented in ...