According to astrology and behavior experts, certain birth months are more likely to shape people with hearts of gold, who continue to spread light even in the face of life’s adversities.

Kindness content has boomed, but so have questions about authenticity and the true impact of filmed philanthropy. Read more ...

Words can detract from the poignancy of the moment, diluting the raw emotions that need acknowledgment. When you constantly ...

Marsh's early research found the size of their right amygdala — a region in the brain that processes emotions — to be larger than average, suggesting a greater capacity for empathy.

After studying and noting a decline in empathy in young people between 1979 and 2009, Konrath, director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research at the Indiana University ...

Needless to say, pity, sympathy, empathy, compassion, and altruism often blur and overlap. The Empathy Paradox My friend tearfully confides that, as a child, she was sexually abused by her father.

And empathy gives rise to altruism. As the “altruism-empathy” hypothesis developed by Daniel Batson 6 suggests, altruism may sometimes have selfish motives or bring some beneficial after-effects.

Charity is, in essence, empathy as action. Effective altruism is to a considerable degree an edifice constructed by those whose talents lie in financial engineering, quantitative research, and ...

Altruism and empathy As I discuss in my new book, DisConnnected, there is an argument that the human capacity for intense empathy means that we are not separate entities.