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Why Do We Walk On By?

By Marc Ian Barasch — 2006

It’s a spiritual truism that trading places with the less fortunate, psychologically if not literally, can be a powerful motive for doing unto others as you’d have them do unto you.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Six Habits of Highly Empathic People

We can cultivate empathy throughout our lives, says Roman Krznaric—and use it as a radical force for social transformation.

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Does Your Brain Care About Other People? It Depends

People are hardwired to dehumanise others but we can overcome this, say David Eagleman and Don Vaughn.

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