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Understanding Others’ Feelings: What Is Empathy and Why Do We Need It?

Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others. It is a construct of multiple components, each of which is associated with its own brain network. There are three ways of looking at empathy.

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Why Your Brain Loves Kindness

If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.

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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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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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6 Easy Ways to Measure Your Child’s Empathy

Research-based ideas to help us practice our most important skill: kindness.

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Compassionate Mind, Healthy Body

Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.

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Why Overcoming Racism is Essential for Humanity’s Survival

Let’s defuse this ticking ethical timebomb and shame those who stoke the flames of bigotry beneath it. Instead, we can open ourselves up to a more expansive attitude of connectedness, empowering us to work together in cooperation with our fellow human kin.

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