10 articles on "empathy"

Empathy is Not Unique to Humans

A debate has been stirring for years over the belief that what set humans apart from all other animals was empathy. Of course Jane Goodall's work and her first insights decades ago in studying chimpanzee troops shocked the core of the human beli...

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Its Not About Who's Right

I see this so much in my office- couples wanting to re-hash a week old argument and wanting me to judge who's right. Detail by detail they correct each other, exactly who said what, who did what first, as if each admited detail is a score toward...

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How Empathy Can Reduce Your Anger

How Empathy Can Reduce Your Anger by: Dr. Tony Fiore Jim, a 42-year old engineer was teaching his eight-year-old son how to fly a radio-controlled airplane. As the airplane was taking off, Jim instructed his son to push the control stick on the ...

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On Empathy - Part II

Alas, such an agreement is meaningless. We cannot (yet) measure sadness, quantify it, crystallize it, access it in any way from the outside. We are totally and absolutely reliant on your introspection and my introspection. There is no way anyone can ...

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On Empathy

mpathy by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in th...

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Empathy Starts at Home!

"Create loving, accepting space around people and this will putirresistible pressure on them to grow to fill it"Mac Andrews"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly befulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be...

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Not Getting the Support or Buy-In You Want Try a little empathy!

"It’s not who is right, but what is right, that isof importance."Thomas Huxley"An open ear is the only believable sign of anopen heart."David Augsburger"A human being is a part of the whole called by usuniverse, a part limited in time and space. He...

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Where does your security lie part two 2

"So long you can sweeten another's pain, Life is not in vain," wrote Helen Keller.Keller certainly understood emotional pain.You have likely observed that in this selfish world, it is easy to 'shut the door of one's tender compassions&...

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On Empathy

On Empathy by: Sam Vaknin The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the ea...

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A Global Empathy Deficit- 2 Lessons

A Global Empathy Deficit- 2 Lessons by: Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. "...We've got a budget deficit that's important, we've got a trade deficit that's critical, but what I worry most is our empathy deficit.” – Interview in O Ma...

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