Janoma Omena’s debut chapbook, The Mess That Is My Mind, explores identity, queer love and homesickness through vivid, ...

Higher-order compassion is sympathy for vulnerabilities and hardships we do not share (or even grasp) but very much want to ...

I believe the agency of the future won’t be defined by who has the best creative director, but who has the smartest ...

If you want something done, ask a mom. We are experts at keeping the proverbial plates spinning — running a household, ...

If there's one thing people have little empathy for, these days, it's empathy. There but for the grace of God, as the saying goes. Only I have that grace, and you don't — so get lost. Callousness is ...

For decades, we've been told that autistic people lack empathy. This assumption is embedded into diagnostic criteria. It shapes how society views autism and how autistic people are represented in ...

Leda Stawnychko has received SSHRC funding. Kris Hans does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...

Parents want to raise kids who care about other people’s feelings and who have an inner moral compass. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. From a young age, children should learn to value ...

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. PBS News tweeted out something unexpected from conservative Christian author ...

We expect more than ever from leaders today—including that they be strongly empathetic. But that hasn’t always been the case. Until recently, in fact, many people considered empathy in a leader to be ...

Georgios Karyotis was the Principal Investigator for the project ‘Building Futures: Aspirations of Syrian Youth Refugees and Host Population Responses in Lebanon, Greece & the UK’, funded jointly ...

Re “‘Empathy’ Becomes Debatable,” by Jennifer Szalai (Critic’s Notebook, July 24): At a time when core values are under attack, empathy is increasingly misunderstood and dismissed as a soft or ...