There’s no single region in the brain responsible for all moral decision making. But neuroscience research has shown specific brain regions are involved when we’re faced with moral dilemmas.
Articles on Empathy
Displaying 181 - 194 of 194 articles
If we can make artificial intelligent machines that act more human it raises the question of what sort of emotions we’d like them to express.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
Are history textbooks constructing the past in a way that allows learners to develop empathy by walking in many different people’s shoes?
Empathy, a trait built into the human character, can be taught and practiced by both police and communities to improve relations.
Should cyberbullies be isolated and shamed? Or should they be helped ? Victims of cyberbullying could take to being cyberbullies themselves.
We hear a lot about tolerance these days. Tolerance is a moral virtue best placed within the moral domain – but unfortunately it is often confounded with prejudice. Much of the psychological research about…
Most of us have experienced the overwhelming urge to yawn in response to another person yawning – but we’re not the only species to do this. Research published in PeerJ today shows bonobos – our…
Facebook has faced a storm of protest since it revealed that it had carried out a large-scale secret experiment to find out if it could make users feel more positive or negative by editing feeds to expose…
Words are powerful things, and the words we use to classify and pathologise can be powerfully negative – something I’ve argued here before. Unfortunately, psychologists use pejorative and scientifically…
Empathy is having a moment. Author Roman Krznaric, founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, called for an empathy revolution, arguing that empathy is a transformative force. Organisations…
A new study has examined whether one’s allegiances affect feelings of empathy when administering rewards or punishment. The…
Never before have we been such compulsive multitaskers, blogging and tweeting using multiple devices and smartphones anywhere and everywhere, from trains to cafes. It seems a little backwards, then, that…
Merely witnessing the pain of another person can trigger the same pain in an observer. Dr Melita Giummarra presented her…
Top contributors
-
Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester
-
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
-
Lecturer in Psychology, King's College London
-
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Bath
-
Associate lecturer, University of Sussex
-
Reader in Leadership, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
-
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Pomona College
-
Honarary Research Fellow in Psychology, Australian Catholic University
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York
-
Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education and Director of the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
-
Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge
-
Associate Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
-
Adjuct Faculty University of Guelph, Former Chair, Early Childhood Studies and Founder of The Love Model Inc.