Empathy is a popular topic these days. Depending on who you read or listen to, empathy can sooth relationships, calm hostility, and, even on a global scale, prevent wars. Using divorce or separation as an opportunity to practice empathy is contrary to a life experience generally associated with a scorched earth approach.
Most parents are inclined to separate with a vengeance, and extending tenderness with strength is contrary to existing social norms. Not only do the parents suffer as they express debilitating anger at former spouses, their children also suffer in the environments where these expressions occur. I propose empathy as a new way to help families manage separation.
"Jolly Good Fellow," Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business -- and its bold side projects. (What creates highly effective leaders?
“Upper-class people, in spite of all their advantages, suffer empathy deficits,” Dr. Keltner said. “And there are enormous consequences.” In other words, a high-powered lawyer or chief executive, ill equipped to pick up on more-subtle emotions, doesn’t make for a sympathetic boss.
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Empathy is an important skill for people to learn when they are trying to communicate effectively with others. People want to feel like others understand and acknowledge their feelings and thoughts during a conversation or an argument. Empathetic listening involves verbal acknowledgments of the other person's thoughts and feelings, and it also involves body language that conveys empathy. In several activities, participants can list, view, and practice empathetic listening.
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
Neuropsychologists see empathy as the integration of body-based information and emotional signals and cognitive thought and beliefs about another’s experience, making sense, making meaning, creating understanding, and then checking out the accuracy of that understanding through a verbal feedback loop. I experienced the difference between attunement and empathy when my mother died. Many, many good people could attune to the grief and disorientation I was feeling.
“Greed is out, empathy is in,” writes primatologist Frans de Waal in his recent book, The Age of Empathy. He may have a point: The Age of Empathy is one of several recent books to make a persuasive case for putting empathy at the center of ideas about human nature, education, and the future of the planet. Indeed, following the success of books like Mary Gordon’s Roots of Empathy, The Age of Empathy joins Jeremy Rifkin’s The Empathic Civilization as two significant recent releases that move discussions of empathy out of the laboratory and into major policy debates.
TED Talks By leading the Americans in his audience step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand - not approve of, but understand - the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent?
The Psychology Department of the University of the Basque Country has published the results of a study into the emotional differences between men and... The research has revealed that parents forgive more easily than their children, while women forgive more readily than men.
According to Basque psychology professor and co-author of the study, Maite Garaigordobil, "A decisive factor in the capacity to forgive is empathy, and women have a greater empathetic capacity than males."
New research suggests the rich have a hard time reading others' emotions. In a series of studies, researchers examined how well participants could judge the emotions that other people were feeling, a skill known as “empathic accuracy.” In each study, the researchers compared the empathic accuracy of people of higher and lower socioeconomic status.
Compassion is defined as the embodiment and recognition of another person’s suffering coupled with a sincere desire to alleviate that suffering. Every one of us has suffered, is suffering or will, at some point, suffer. It has been stated many times that survival is of the fittest, but when one reads Darwin closely this is not the case. Rather, the more accurate statement, coined by Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. and other leading social scientists, is “the survival of the kindest.” Paul Ekman, Ph.D., a leading expert on emotion describes an ever expanding body of scientific evidence that being compassionate affords significant benefit to oneself and society in his recent article in JAMA.
In addition to evidence that survival may be enhanced by may be enhanced by caring for others, there are now findings suggesting that the statement made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “if one wishes to make others happy be compassionate, if one wishes to be happy be compassionate,” in fact, has great validity.
But what we can't do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each another. That we can not do. That we can not do. As we discuss these issues, let each of us do so with a good dose of humility. Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let's use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.
Women are said to be better at distinguishing between the fleeting expressions that cross our faces every day. According to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen at the Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University, this is because empathy comes naturally to women while men are wired to understand how things work. Men are typically systemisers. That is they're better at investigating how a system works.
In "Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life," Karen Armstrong, a prominent and prolific religious historian, offers a prescription for the world's addiction to egotism that might sound counter-intuitive. After all, her key to making the world more caring and more whole is found in religion, which also happens to contribute to many of the world's divisions.
The Canadian emotional literacy program gets such much-deserved national coverage in the U.S. Kids learning about emotions from a baby—it’s such a simple, elegant, and powerful idea, brought to life beautifully by ROE’s founder Mary Gordon and her team. While the program has spread across Canada, and has now reached several other countries, it has yet to gain similar prominence in the United States.
While previous studies have shown that inducing empathy for people with AIDS, the homeless, and racial and ethnic minorities can improve people’s behavior toward them, Berenguer’s study is the first to make such a direct connection between empathy and environmental action.
Gender stereotypes presume that men are less emotionally intelligent than women; research has found that the truth is not so simple. Yet a new study suggests that when it comes to empathy, gender might matter.
Dutch neuroscientist Erno Jan Hermans and his colleagues set out to test whether testosterone directly inhibits a person’s ability to empathize with someone else—that is, whether it makes him less prone to take another person’s perspective and understand what she is thinking or feeling.
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