While a healthy degree of self-interest is natural, some individuals consistently operate from a place where their own needs, ...

Starfleet Academy will delve into complex themes such as race and xenophobia, but series the showrunners maintain the show will appeal to people on all sides of the political spectrum.

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Arthur C. Brooks: What’s missing from empathy The toxic kind of empathy, she contends, is the kind that makes you double-check your specifically conservative political priors.

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Empathy without ethics isn’t virtuous. It’s manipulative. And it’s starting to feel all too commonplace.

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Like other terms such as “freedom” or “love,” “empathy” is generally something of a “hurrah” word; people agree that, whatever it is, it is a very good thing. Recent decades have ...

Empathy is important to democracy—but it’s complicated to understand, as scientists and philosophers have long tried to study in practice. I am one of those scientists. As we use it in our day ...

Compassion and empathy sound like synonyms, but they're two different skill sets. Here's how and why to hone both qualities, according to psychologists.