From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Virtual reality activates brain networks that increase your ability to identify with other people, according to new research published in eNeuro. The technology could become a tool in the…
From the University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences press release: UCLA researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person’s ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they…
From the De Gruyter press release: Researchers at the University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT, Hall, Austria) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) have confirmed the analgesic…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: Developing original and innovative products is critical to a company’s long-term success and competitive advantage. Thus, gaining a better idea of what factors impact…
From the University of Pennsylvania press release: It’s long been known that autism is far more prevalent in males than in females. What hasn’t been understood is why. “Of course, the primary suspect when we…
From the Dartmouth College press release: Humans use imagination a lot, whether it be thinking about what’s for dinner later tonight or trying to imagine what someone else on the other side of the world…
From the University of Exeter press release: Companies would do well to tailor training and recruitment measures to encourage managers who have empathy, integrity and are trustworthy — because they can improve productivity, according to…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Even when feeling empathy for others isn’t financially costly or emotionally draining, people will still avoid it because they think empathy requires too much mental effort, according to…
From the University of the Basque Country press release: The research group in the Psychobiology section of the Department of Basic Psychological Processes and their Development of the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Psychology has spent many…
From the Santa Fe Institute press release: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary origins of empathy and other related phenomena, such…