(THE CONVERSATION) For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care ...

(RNS) — Allie Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney just want to make sure you're empathizing with those they deem worthy of empathy.

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 ...

Many people treat empathy the way they treat height or eye color; in other words, as something baked in from birth. We hear this in everyday phrases like “she’s such a good kid” or “he’s just not very ...

Critics say it's hard to shake the trauma they carry to work from recent newscasts, complaining that the empathy gap at work ...

The research relevant to this article was funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Stylianos Syropoulos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...