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Learning to make music helps babies communicate better and amps up empathy in older kids.
To better understand what makes psychopaths tick, researchers are using brain scans to compare them with other abnormal personalities like sadists and those with antisocial personality disorder.
People who are hard-wired to show empathy and kindness do so even in the face of a threatening or untrustworthy world.
A new study shows why empathy doesn’t cross the political aisle.
What do women want? It’s the age-old question. But a recent study offers men a clue: women are most satisfied when their partner knows they’re upset.
Cell phones connect you socially, but they may also make you less socially minded.
Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they’re made out to be? Studies suggest that the richer people are, the less compassion they show.
Rats may not be, well, such rats after all. In the first study of its kind, researchers show that rats engage in empathy-driven behavior, helping to free a trapped cagemate for no reward other than relieving its fellow rat’s distress. Rats chose to help each other out of traps, even when a stash of delicious [...]
Feeling socially connected is good for you, both physically and mentally, but in a paradox, it may also make you less empathetic to the plight of others.
Amidst the headlines tallying the damage wrought by persistent economic decline, cataclysmic climate change and unbending political stalemate — among other things — Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker brings good news.
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
