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  1. Empathy Definition | What Is Empathy - Greater Good

    6 days ago · The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s …

  2. What Middle Schoolers Can Teach Us About Empathy

    Jun 24, 2025 · Empathy is a complex skill to learn and put into practice. We talked with middle schoolers about what it means to them.

  3. How to Stay Empathic Without Suffering So Much - Greater Good

    May 4, 2017 · If you frequently experience distress when you empathize with someone else, there is a biological basis for your heartache. A review of multiple brain imaging studies tells us that the person …

  4. In a Divided World, We Need to Choose Empathy - Greater Good

    May 29, 2019 · In fact, even fictional stories help us to empathize with real people. Evidence suggests that bookworms grow better at understanding others the more stories they eat through. Even small …

  5. Six Habits of Highly Empathic People - Greater Good

    Nov 27, 2012 · 6.Empathize with those, let me get the exact statement, "Empathizing with adversaries is also a route to social tolerance". To those of us who are smarter than average and actually are by …

  6. How to Avoid the Empathy Trap - Greater Good

    Jul 7, 2015 · Empathy is having its moment. The ability to feel what another person is feeling, from that person’s perspective, generates lots of press as the ultimate positive value and the pathway to a …

  7. How Anxiety Reduces Empathy - Greater Good

    Aug 10, 2015 · If our stress-filled lives generate more moments of anxiety, that means our perspective taking is routinely compromised—and with it, part of our ability to empathize and connect with others. …

  8. Why Empathy Matters - Greater Good

    Nov 21, 2014 · Seeing others through the lens of prejudice will make it easier to deny our shared humanity and harder to empathize. If someone in authority encourages you to discount a group of …

  9. Strategies for Health Care Leaders to Build… - Greater Good

    Nov 12, 2024 · Providing compassionate care isn't just a choice that health care workers make; it requires larger systems and leaders to support it.

  10. Does Your Dog Have Empathy for You? - Greater Good

    Jul 11, 2017 · New research supports the hypothesis that dogs “catch" emotions from other dogs and humans.