How you treat yourself profoundly affects your health and well-being. What is self-empathy? Why can it seem so elusive when it is so good for us? It often seems so much easier to have empathy for ...

In a previous column we explored empathy as a behavior that’s important in all relationships and is particularly useful as a leadership skill. We gained insights from Maria Ross, an empathy researcher ...

Empathy is a vital tool to communicate, collaborate and create with colleagues or customers from other cultures by overcoming cross-cultural barriers. Empathy—understanding how others feel—is ...

This is a sentiment I often hear in therapy sessions, particularly from doctors, palliative care workers, journalists, social ...

In a world grappling with deep-seated division and social upheaval, empathy has become more critical than ever. But science suggests when it comes to evoking empathy, our imagination is more powerful ...

Empathy is often described as the glue that binds humanity, allowing us to connect, support, and understand one another on a deeper level. It's the capacity to put ourselves in another's shoes, to ...

There has been much criticism of Elon Musk's suggestion in early 2025, in conversation with Joe Rogan, that empathy is a weakness of Western civilization. In fact, as believing Christians, Jews, or ...

Marines will no longer buckle down to learn the list of the service’s leadership traits, as an “E” for empathy was added at the end of the famous phrase used to commit them to memory. The Marine Corps ...

Empathy, the act of understanding and sharing the feelings of others, has long been the underpinning of religious, humanitarian and philosophical teachings. Now, there's a new perspective increasingly ...

Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn’t make coping with it any easier — not least because while loved ones are grieving, they must also handle ...