This technique helped students connect with each other and overcome social barriers to build a more cohesive community.

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 ...

What motivates people to donate their time or money to make the world better? Alistair Berg/DigitalVision via Getty Images For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps ...

Many people tend to conflate emotional intelligence with empathy. Emotional intelligence involves—and necessitates—much more.

Cognitive Empathy: The person can mentally recognize another person’s feeling state and take their perspective without ...

Thinking about other people's emotions vs. actually feeling them Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS Cognitive empathy is about understanding what someone else is feeling. Emotional empathy means ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too ...

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 ...

Living a long, healthy life is the goal for many people, but a growing body of research has found there's more to it than eating well, exercising regularly, and having good genes. Empathy has ...

Until recently empathy generally was considered a positive thing. Scientific research indicates it strengthens societies and ...