'Mohammadreza Hojat is trying to figure out how to make doctors more empathetic.
His study, published in this month's American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, found that medical students who watched a skit about a senior citizen's introduction to an assisted-living facility became more empathetic, but it didn't last. His most recent work, not yet published, looks more promising. In that one, he combined discussions of short film clips with lessons on why empathy matters.
The stakes are high. Research shows that patients of doctors with empathy - what used to be called bedside manner - are more satisfied and are likely to follow doctors' orders. Empathy also reduces the risk of malpractice suits and errors....'
However, there’s a dark side to empathy that is rarely discussed. UX Booth’s own Andrew Maier explains in his article about reducing noise, that “although office environments are designed to encourage creativity, their inhabitants can occasionally hinder it”.
“Sometimes we can become overwhelmed by empathy at work,” adds Judith Orloff, MD, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA and author of “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life.” She stresses that “in the workplace, empathy has both an upside and a downside. People who are extremely empathic and sensitive need to be aware of both.”
Sylvia Clute an author and attorney in Richmond, Va., presently engaged in the creation and implementation of a unitive justice system in a high school. Author Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality: A Call for a Compassionate Revolution.
Listening is the beginning of understanding. Stephen Covey, in his book, 7 Habits For Highly Effective People, states “highly effective people spend an inordinate amount of time and energy listening.”
It is estimated that we spend 55% of our time listening yet it is one of the least taught skills in school. Some psychologists believe to empathize with and understand a person’s point of view is one of the highest forms of intelligent behavior. Good listeners put aside their own thoughts to listen to the ideas of others and try to understand what other people are saying. They are often regarded as respectful, focused, tuned in, caring and attentive. ...
A common listening sequence is to pause, paraphrase and probe.
Dara Feldman is Director of Education and a Master Facilitator for The Virtues Project, offering keynotes, workshops and retreats transforming school culture and empowering students, educators and families to thrive.
Noble Kelly from Education Beyond Borders, a non-profit NGO devoted to closing the education divide through teacher professional development and community education.
Managing Director of the Compassionate Listening Project and founder of the Free Listening Project of Puget Sound. Compassionate Listening Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and create powerful cultures of peace.
After yesterday’s robust discussion (a hearty thank you to all that participated), I started thinking about empathy. As I pointed out in my comments, empathy was a close runner up to the ability to communicate effectively for what I believe is the most important characteristic for a leader. After reading your comments, I started to think that we were all pretty much in agreement on both characteristics being extremely important for leaders.
How can we foster empathy in the education system? Check out this interview with Joan Duffell. She had a lot of wonderful insights, built on a wealth of experience, to share on this question.
Joan Cole Duffell is Executive Director of Committee for Children, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the safety, well-being and social development of children through the provision and support of research-based educational programs for educators, families and communities.
Empathy may be the most valuable yet underrated attribute of a successful innovator. Steve Jobs—despite his well-deserved reputation for being surly and insensitive—had oodles of it. How else do you design and create so many products that people don’t realize they want until they see them? He understood his customers better than they understood themselves! That’s empathy. It’s being able to get inside people’s hearts and minds so deeply that you know their desires before they do...
Empathy is a huge factor in entrepreneurial success. Without it, a start-up is unlikely to identify an appropriate customer, market niche or even business model. A deep understanding and empathy for the customer should guide virtually every decision an entrepreneur makes.
Empathy is a radical concept. Sometimes the word radical is unnecessary, it's embedded in the notion. Empathy, as a working concept, if we actually put it into practice in our lives, would be among the most radical things we could do in this world.
Radical Empathy - A Starting Point science is catching up interesting that science lags behind common sense it's the cutting edge of science thinking of ethics from a different point relationships individualization of our struggles - our own pursuits healing and renewal - we need to socialize our burdens
John Fea, one of my former history professors, recently blogged about the concept of "intellectual empathy" and I would like to share some thoughts that he passed along from Michael Jinkins, president of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. I recommend reading Dr. Fea's original post here; additionally, you can see the entirety of Michael Jinkins' post here...
This capacity for intellectual empathy is essential to those who wish to live generously and with integrity in a pluralistic society. Perhaps it is even more essential today than in times past, given the social and cultural forces that presently foster division and encourage peremptory dismissal of opposing views -- not to mention our enhanced capacities to destroy one another.
HumaneSpot.org is the world's most comprehensive resource for attitude and behavior research relating to animal and environmental protection issues.
This literature review examines past studies on empathy in animals. It discusses evidence for empathy in non-human primates, other mammals, and birds. The authors argue that researchers need to develop a more nuanced method of measuring empathy in non-human animals.
Article Abstract: "Domestic animals may be frequently exposed to situations in which they witness the distress or pain of conspecifics and the extent to which they are affected by this will depend on their capacity for empathy. Empathy encompasses two partially distinct sets of processes concerned with the emotional and cognitive systems. The term, empathy, is therefore used to describe both relatively simple processes, such as physiological and behavioural matching; and more complex interactions between emotional and cognitive perspective taking systems. Most previous attempts to measure empathic responsiveness in animals have not distinguished between responses primarily relevant to the situation of the observer and those primarily relevant to the situation of the conspecific.
Welcome to the Institute for Poetic Medicine and John Fox..
When Someone Deeply Listens To You
When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you've had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you are loved.
When someone deeply listens to you the room where you stay starts a new life and the place where you wrote your first poem begins to glow in your mind's eye. It is as if gold has been discovered!.
Men are more satisfied in marriage when their spouses pick up on their happiness.
A lot of research has looked at the connection between picking up on what your spouse is feeling and satisfaction with the relationship. Mostly, it has found a positive connection: the more “empathetic accuracy” there is, the better the relationship. But some studies have arrived at different conclusions, suggesting that there isn’t always a benefit in intuiting the feelings of the other person.
Welcome to the 2012 Empathic Transformation Telesummit: How Compassionate Communication is Changing Our World, a 30-day event I’ll be hosting from March 20th through April 18th.
We’ll be coming together to integrate the consciousness of Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and to co-create a world where we’re all committed to an awareness of universal needs, presence to our own and others experience, seeing beyond right and wrong thinking, and power to seek that which would make our lives more wonderful.
This has made me think again about mirror neurons, sometimes referred to in Japanese as “monomane saibo” [“mimic cells”].
There is a hypothesis that these nerve cells are involved in empathy enabling us to understand the actions, intentions and emotions of other people, and may also have become the trigger for our acquisition of language.
Empathy is essential to communication. So what do these unique cells suggest to us humans today?
Stan Davis has worked for human rights in many different ways. In the 1960s he worked in the US Civil Rights movement. As a social worker and child and family therapist in the 1970s and 1980s, he worked with abused, traumatized, and grieving children and trained Child Protective Workers.
Bridget Cooper is Professor of Education at the University of Sunderland in the UK. Bridget has taught for 31 years in schools, adult education and Higher Education in various capacities across the age and attainment range.
Author: Empathy in Education: Engagement, values and achievement
'The mission of the Empathy Factory is to instil a sense of empathy and a philanthropic spirit in Nova Scotia’s youth. To build a generation of generous, conscientious humanitarians. To empower children to effect the world and be socially conscious global citizens'
By now you have probably already suspected that your super-high empathy is what got you in trouble in this pathological relationship. But, did you know there is hard science behind what we suspected about what is going on in your relationship with your super-trait of high empathy? It really IS all in your head - and your genes.
In fact, these genes influence the production of various brain chemicals that can influence just 'how much' empathy you have. These brain chemicals include those that influence orgasm, and it's effect on how bonded you feel, while also inPublishfluencing some aspects of mental health
The neuropeptide oxytocin functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter and facilitates complex social cognition and approach behavior. Given that empathy is an essential ingredient for third-party decision-making in institutions of justice, we investigated whether exogenous oxytocin modulates empathy of an unaffected third-party towards offenders and victims of criminal offenses.
Healthy male participants received intranasal oxytocin or placebo in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, between-subjects design. Participants were given a set of legal vignettes that described an event during which an offender engaged in criminal offenses against victims...
Isaiah Berlin argued that genuine intellectual empathy requires creativity and commitment -- a commitment and a willingness to imagine others’ ideas from within, even if you disagree.
This capacity for intellectual empathy is essential to those who wish to live generously and with integrity in a pluralistic society. Perhaps it is even more essential today than in times past, given the social and cultural forces that presently foster division and encourage peremptory dismissal of opposing views -- not to mention our enhanced capacities to destroy one another.
Practicing intellectual empathy is a kind of spiritual discipline, because it necessitates that we put aside our belief that the lens through which we view the world is the only right one (see Rom 12:3).
This study investigated the relations between altruism, empathy, and spirituality in a sample of 186 university students. Zero-order and partial correlations controlling for age, sex, and social desirability indicated that, although altruism and empathy are related to each other in a manner consistent with previous research, the association of both of these to spirituality is complex and multidirectional.
In particular, empathy was found to be significantly positively related to nonreligious spiritual cognitions, religiousness, and spiritual experiences and negatively associated with existential well-being. Altruism, on the other hand, was most strongly linked to spiritual experiences, followed by spiritual cognitions. Regression analyses revealed that nonreligious spiritual cognitions and spiritual experiences are the most potent predictors of both empathy and altruism, respectively.
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