Spouses’ Daily Responses to Partners’ Pain Linked with Later Functioning
The dynamics of spouses’ daily interactions may influence whether an ill partner’s physical functioning improves over time. More
The dynamics of spouses’ daily interactions may influence whether an ill partner’s physical functioning improves over time. More
U.S. News & World Report: Being mean to someone isn’t typically seen as something to be proud of – but what if you were doing it in order to help someone else? Though a roundabout way of doing so, people might try and make someone feel bad in a situation More
People may try to make someone else feel negative emotions if they think experiencing those emotions will be beneficial in the long run. More
The Wall Street Journal: Everywhere you turn in American politics, leaders talk about the need for empathy. The best-known instance, of course, comes from Bill Clinton, who told an AIDS activist in 1992, “I feel your pain.” But it’s also been a recurrent theme in the career of Barack Obama More
People overestimated the persuasiveness of email requests and underestimated the effectiveness of requests made face-to-face. More
The Atlantic: According to Jamil Zaki, assistant professor of psychology and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, even though empathy is a fundamental human emotion, people are not exactly wired for a globalized response. “When we evolved, we were in small groups of interdependent individuals, so the people More