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 ...

Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn't make coping with it any easier -- not least because while loved ones are grieving, they must also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests empathy and perspective may matter more than prompt skills when working with AI, helping users collaborate better and boost performance.

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 ...

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 ...

When someone we care about is struggling, many of us jump into problem-solving mode. We offer advice, suggest strategies, or try to cheer them up. Our intentions are good—we want to help. But in doing ...

You don’t have to agree with someone's perspective to show empathy for them. I had the honor of presenting at TEDx Morehouse College in March of this year. My talk, as you might imagine, was about ...