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Why You Should Smile at Strangers
LiveScience: Next time you’re out walking about, you may want to give passers-by a smile, or at least a nod. Recent research reveals that these tiny gestures can make people feel more connected. People who
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Empathy may be negated by political party
United Press International: People may lack empathy for those who are hungry or cold if they perceive them to be of another political party, U.S. researchers said. Study co-authors Ed O’Brien and Phoebe C. Ellsworth
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Being in Power Does Not Always Magnify Personality
“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power,” said Abraham Lincoln. It’s a truism that power magnifies personality—but is it true? A new study says no. “Before, people thought that disposition is
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Why Republicans and Democrats Can’t Feel Each Other’s Pain
TIME: Shakespeare asked rhetorically whether Christians and Jews are not “hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal’d by the same means, warm’d and cool’d by the same winter and summer?” The
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Empathy Doesn’t Extend Across the Political Aisle
When we try to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes, we usually go all the way, assuming that they feel the same way we do. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal
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Shivering Liberals, Parched Conservatives
Imagine you’re reading a newspaper and you come across an article about a woman lost in a nearby forest. She had hiked several miles to a small cabin for a bit of escape from her
