Jean Piaget

'Empathic Civilization': How Little Minds Are Wired For Compassion

David Elkind | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Homo Empathicus, Jean Piaget, Babies Empathy, Arianna's Reading, Books, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
David Elkind

In our world today we are seeing a battle between human values (homo empathicus) and economic values (homo averiticus). So far, homo empathicus appears to be losing this battle.

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'Empathic Civilization': Amazing Empathic Babies

Alison Gopnik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Babies Imitation, Jean Piaget, Empathy, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna's Reading, Mirror Neurons, Morality, Babies, Books, The Empathic Civilization, Books News
Alison Gopnik

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

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A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Scott Atran | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Anthropology, Jean Piaget, Macques Monod, Columbia University, Claude-Levi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Healthy Living News
Scott Atran

In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.

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