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

Learn about the differences between empathy and sympathy. This article also looks at some frequently asked questions.

Kind leadership doesn’t just make for better workplaces; it builds the foundation for healthier, more resilient communities.

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 is a complex process that includes both unconscious feelings and cognitive processing to feel and understand the emotions and experiences of others, or as we commonly say, “walk in someone ...

As an empathy researcher, educator and a clinical psychiatrist, I've recently become aware of my own limited empathy as I've attempted to understand vaccine refusal, grappling with my own secret ...

Parents can help their children develop empathy. Empathy begins with the capacity to take another perspective, or walk in another’s shoes. According to Dr. Michele Borba, kids learn empathy through ...

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 ...

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.

Empathy and compassion are essential to our humanity because they enable cooperation, strengthen relationships, and foster kindness and ethical behavior. They help us to understand and share another’s ...

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 ...