Empathy Movement Magazine

House Pro-Life Caucus. Rep. Smith delivered an abbreviated version to the 2008 March...

On Sunday, Senator Barack Obama criticized Americans for both our moral deficit and empathy deficit and called on us to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.

Can Senator Obama not see, appreciate, or understand that the abortion culture that he and others so assiduously promote lacks all empathy for unborn children—be they Black, White, Latino, or Asian—and is, at best, profoundly misguided when it comes to mothers?

Why does dismembering a child with sharp knives, pulverizing a child with powerful suction devices, or chemically poisoning a baby with any number of toxic chemicals fail to elicit so much as a scintilla of empathy, moral outrage, mercy, or compassion by America’s liberal elite?

Abortion destroys the life of our “brothers and sisters” and the pro-abortion movement is the quintessential example of an “Empathy Deficit.”

his textbook, written by bestselling author and metaphysicist Dr. Theresa M. Kelly, offers you straightforward, honest explanations of psychical empathy through new research initiatives in parapsychology, psychology, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and related subjects for a semi-technical audience. Whether you are an intelligent layperson or professional curious about empathy, or looking to discover how to utilize empathy, this textbook will provide a detailed framework, without complicated equations, onto which more advanced concepts can be applied. For students of Empathic Studies, this textbook will be a revelation of what actions and influences you are involved in and exactly how you can take your empathic ability to a completely new level step-by-step.

By setting up a unique experiment, a small team of researchers has found that chimpanzees are able to understand need in other chimps, despite their general disinclination to offer aid when they see it. Shinya Yamamotoa, Tatyana Humleb, and Masayuki Tanakac set up a way to test their idea that chimps are able to understand some part of what is going on in the minds of others around them, and as they describe in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they found a way to demonstrate it.

The Academy Awards ceremony (The Oscars) are coming up in a couple of weeks.. Thougth I'd look at what some actors have to say about empathy.

"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist." Susan Sarandon

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you." Susan Sarandon
 

 The lessons she hopes to pass on to her children.

“I hope they're present in their lives and feel some kind of empathy. I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made in the world have been through a lack of empathy. If you can identify with someone else and empathise with someone else, then activism is a short step away,”

Rather than attempt a new anti-violence initiative, Ashoka Fellow Eric Dawson of Peace First has set out to build safe and effective school climates, by equipping students as peacemakers, and providing educators with the critical skills and knowledge to integrate social-emotional learning into the school’s curriculum and culture. Eric realized that today’s young people are living in a destructive cycle of violence: 3 out of 4 kids report being bullied, 160,000 students fear going to school each day, and by the 6th grade, the average child has seen 100,000 acts of violence on television....

We’re calling on those leaders to share their ideas in our Activating Empathy competition currently running on changemakers.com. Have an idea you want to share, or know of someone who might? Submit it today, and stay tuned for more stories of what you can do to prevent stories like Kaleb’s from happening again

This is a promotional video for the kickstarter campaign to self-publish "Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making", a book by Seung Chan Lim...

The act of making is not about creativity or innovation, but rather a challenge to empathize with the integrity of others. That other may be a character in a play, a fellow actor, a piece of wood, a dancer, or even your own body. We often think we know them, but really... have no idea.

With Empathy in the Context of Philosophy, Lou Agosta seeks to make a philosophical contribution to the debate on what empathy is, a debate that has often taken place mainly in the psychological arena. While this topic enjoyed its academic hay-day nearly 100 years ago, he tells us discussions about the nature and experience of empathy are making a comeback.

Agosta sees humankind entering a new empathetic age, brought on by such things as discoveries in neurology and discussions in the media about the fitness about Supreme Court judges (the vetting process includes investigating if the individual has too little or too much empathy), however the core problem from a century ago remains: empathy was never definitively settled, and thus we still don't know what it is.

What empathy allows us to do is viscerally imagine the current physical state of the other, and, as an extension, their future actions. We do this by conjuring up and synthesizing our own embodied knowledge through a heightened awareness of the signals perceived from the other.

My Child Is Unable To Show Empathy. Empathy -- the ability to feel for others and mentally put yourself in their place -- develops as a child ages. Because empathy is learned, you as a parent can help foster empathetic behavior and understanding....

Danger Signs
Lack of empathy in the preteen or teenager can be one warning sign of a psychiatric disorder. Other signs that should lead concerned parents to look for medical help and guidance include cruelty to animals, fire-setting, frequent lying, petty thievery, defiance, bullying others, aggressive behavior, unresponsiveness to punishment and lack or remorse.  

By Suzanne Robin

How do I know that I know what I know – about you? This is clearly a question about epistemology, about knowledge. But it’s a special kind of knowledge, about others.

The ability to understand what another human being is thinking or feeling is most commonly known as empathy. The word empathy comes from the German einfühlung, which literally translates as “feeling into.” For thousands of years, empathy has attracted the attention of great thinkers in many fields of study, but only recently has empathy experienced a serious comeback, signaled by the advent of social neuroscience. This field, a melding of social psychology and cognitive neuroscience, is startlingly young and the researchers in it are duly young, and maybe even hip (as David Brooks has pointed out). Empathy has found center stage in a large body of social neuroscience research. 

Marco Iacoboni & Edwin Rutsch: Dialogs on How to Build a Culture of Empathy
2012-01-26
Video Transcripts and more at http://bit.ly/A89xV1

Since its inception, AI has focused on the transformational power of appreciative questions. Underlying that power is the ability of such questions to establish empathic connections. As AI practitioners, we would do well, then, to expand our understanding and use of empathy in the inquiry. Knowing how to fully appreciate the feelings and needs of others holds the key to AI success

Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be socializing people into becoming more individualist rather than empathic, research has uncovered the existance of "mirror neurons" which react to emotions in others and then reproduce them.

Putting Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes

How to Test Your Empathy
Empathy comes more naturally to some than to others.

Are You Suffering From Empathy Deficit Disorder?
How to heal your EDD.

Mind Reading
We're all street-corner psychics.

How to Be a Better Mind Reader
The ABCs of reading another's emotions.

Empathy, Mindblindness, and Theory of Mind
Do people with autism truly lack empathy?

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world.

Dr. Richard J. Davidson, founder of the UW's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), at the Waisman Center, has received a three-year, $1.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to develop laboratory and real-world measures of virtuous qualities such as altruism and compassion.

We are delighted to announce that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be visiting the UK from 16 - 23 June 2012 to spread his message of non-violence, dialogue and universal responsibility, particularly to young people.