News tagged with empathetic response

Yawning toons make an ape gape

Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Facebook can get you fired: Research reveals the perils of social networking for school employees

School administrators are facing a growing dilemma resulting from social networking that goes beyond preventing cyber-bullying among students. They're also faced with balancing the rights of privacy and free speech of educators ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helping your fellow rat: Rodents show empathy-driven behavior

The first evidence of empathy-driven helping behavior in rodents has been observed in laboratory rats that repeatedly free companions from a restraint, according to a new study by University of Chicago neuroscientists.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

What choice do we have?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Too much choice can be a bad thing—not just for the individual, but for society. Thinking about choices makes people less sympathetic to others and less likely to support policies that help people, according ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Showing empathy to patients can improve care

Showing clinical empathy to patients can improve their satisfaction of care, motivate them to stick to their treatment plans and lower malpractice complaints, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Racial bias clouds ability to feel others' pain

When people witness or imagine the pain of another person, their nervous system responds in essentially the same way it would if they were feeling that pain themselves. Now, researchers reporting online on May 27th in Current Bi ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Empathy and violence have similar circuits in the brain

Researchers from the University of Valencia, Spain, have resumed the brain structures involved with empathy, in other words the ability to put oneself in another person's position, and carried out a scientific ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Research corroborates mindfulness meditation effective in Marriage and Family Therapy curriculum

Virginia Tech is one of few universities to integrate mindfulness meditation into its Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program curriculum, according to Eric McCollum, professor of human development and MFT ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Virtualizing succession and sustainability

How do we as a society imagine our future? With social and natural environments changing, often quickly, it's difficult to imagine how our society might look a generation or more into the future. How can we then develop robust ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Men feel less guilt

Although changing social and cultural contexts mean guilt has less power today than it once did, a new study has shown that in the West this emotion is "significantly higher" among women. The main problem, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (40) | comments 61


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