empathy

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Why Listening is More than Just being Quiet

Recent research shows that listening behaviours influence the quality of social connections.

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Mindfulness Isn’t Enough: Here’s Why We Need Kindfulness

Studies suggest that awareness without warmth doesn’t reliably produce kindness. Sometimes it produces something closer to well-regulated indifference. Perhaps mindfulness needs to evolve into kindfulness.

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What your feed is feeding you

Does whether a person consumes positive or negative content affect whether they will help someone in need? That question was explored in a fascinating experiment.

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The Science of Positive Empathy

A happiness shared is a happiness doubled. That’s what the science of positive empathy tells us.

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