Empathy is being publicly derided as a deadly weakness. According to experts and extensive research, it's one of our greatest ...

New research shows that people find AI responses more compassionate and understanding than responses by human crisis experts.

The good, the bad, the in-between–all of it has contributed to this incredibly complex, yet imperfect, person that I am.

I am a junior in college. I enjoy being around people, so I live in the dorms. Last year, my roommate was depressed, and I ...

Childhood maltreatment often continues from one generation to the next, perpetuating the cycle of abuse and depression. In a bid to promote healthier parent-child relationships, researchers from the ...

Simply put, parental empathy, the ability to understand and respond to children's emotions, plays a critical role in ...

A new study sheds light on how childhood maltreatment can lead to impaired empathy and increased risk of child abuse in adulthood.

What was once a noble impulse — the ability to assimilate and share the feelings of others — has, in its most unmitigated ...

Chotiner drew Mohler, a supposed follower of Jesus Christ, to admit he now condemns empathy. Mohler sneered that empathy is "an artificial virtue," calling empathy "destructive and manipulative." ...