Employee benefits that support workers through life events like personal loss are tied to better engagement, productivity and retention.

There’s a fallacy that leading with empathy means being weak or “soft.” In fact, empathy can create conditions for excellence in the workplace. Find out how.

Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy ...

Empathy–or “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another,” as Merriam-Webster defines it–had a ...

I recently had an encounter with other parents where it was difficult for some to understand what it’s like to parent a child with special needs. I realized we often receive sympathy, when we really ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The loss of a loved one is a profoundly difficult time, and navigating the financial, legal, emotional and logistical challenges that follow can often be daunting.

Empathy has been in the news lately after Elon Musk stated, during the Joe Rogan Podcast, "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." This quote has been taken out of context in the ...

It’s easy to be cynical these days. The 24/7 news cycle brings us images and extreme headlines about tragedies almost as soon as they occur. If you listen to the rhetoric, it’s easy to believe ...