While critics argue that empathy can be limiting, new research finds that empathy and reasoning work together to drive people ...

Empathy and compassion are essential to our humanity because they enable cooperation, strengthen relationships, and foster ...

Empathy training programs that include practice and feedback tend to be most effective. Experiences such as travel, learning sign language, and pet ownership may also train empathy. There are no ...

These days, someone seeking mental health support can find a variety of online communities to talk through what they’re feeling. In these communities, peers are usually responding, and empathy is key.

Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Carroll is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Modern medicine has an ...

Empathy sits at the core of every meaningful relationship, yet it's often misunderstood. Most people assume empathy is simply ...

Holiday gatherings can come with the invisible stress of potential arguments and conflict. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Tapping into empathy skills can help prepare you to face conflict head-on ...

Empathic personal distress stems from what I call "empathy gone awry." It arises from confusion of boundaries—feeling the ...

The past two and a half years have brought much disruption and many challenges, from the pandemic to social unrest to companies facing the Great Resignation. It seems that every time we begin healing ...

Research shows teens are turning to AI for connection. While AI helps with learning, relying on it as a “friend” may weaken ...

A useful framework for considering the needs of the “more-than-human world” when designing human-made systems is “ecological empathy,” the focus of Lauren Lambert, founder of Future Now, a ...

Dark empaths are people who use the power of their empathy—which is the ability to detect and understand others’ feeling and emotions—not to help others but instead to manipulate others for personal ...