Empathy Article Groupings
Often a study or topic about empathy comes up and many different sources; magazines, blogs, etc. will write about it.  We'll be placing topics here and linking to the cluster of articles on the topic.
 

• Study: Chimpanzee Contagious Yawning Evidence of Empathy

• Study: UC Berkeley about how the poor have more empathy than the rich.
       
   

• Study: Collage Students have Less Empathy

  • "The current study examines changes over time in a commonly used measure of dispositional empathy.

• Study: Ecstasy (MDMA) and Empathy

  • MDMA or ‘ecstasy’ increases feelings of empathy and social connection.

• Study: Oxytocin and Empathy

  •  Oxytocin and social proficiency

• Study: Bullying and Victim Pain

  • people underestimate the social pain and trauma suffered by bully victims

• Study: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 week

  • Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions

• Study shows women more forgiving that men

  • A decisive factor in the capacity to forgive is empathy, and women have a greater empathetic capacity than males.

• Study: Chicken Empathy

  • "New research has found evidence of empathy in the emotional reactions of chickens."

• Study: Empathetic doctors get better results

  • a research team from Jefferson Medical College (JMC) of Thomas Jefferson University has been able to quantify a relationship between physicians’ empathy and their patients’ positive clinical outcomes, suggesting that a physician’s empathy is an important factor associated with clinical competence.

• Study:  Dogs' capacity to empathize with humans

  • dogs have the capacity to empathize with humans for three main reasons

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