Empathy

Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Thought, Education, Intelligence, Emotion, Empathy, Reason, Brain, Split-Brain, Life Coaching, Intuition, Society, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Mind, Logic, Living News

Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.

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Karl Rove Needs a Dictionary: Get Your Definition of Empathy Correct

Caroline Presno | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Karl Rove, Empathy, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Empathy is an objective understanding of the subjective experience of another. In the process of empathizing, you're actually putting your ego aside in order to see what it is like to walk in another person's shoes.

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The Empathy Seat on the Supreme Court

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Empathy, President Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Law School, To Kill a Mockingbird, William Rehnquist, Atticus Finch, Clarence Thomas, Compassion, Confirmation Debate, Politics News

Somewhere between graduating from law school, the passing of the bar, and the hanging up of a shingle, those who are licensed to navigate our legal system have lost their inner-Atticus Finch.

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Sotomayor Opposed By Powerful Anti-Empathy Lobby

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.27.2009 | Comedy

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor faces new hurdles today, in the form of pressure to block her confirmation from the powerful anti-empathy lobby.

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The Supreme Court, Empathy, and the Science of Decision Making

Kent Greenfield | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices, Empathy, Decision-Making, Behavioral Economics, David Souter Replacement, David Souter, Death Penalty, Diversity, Politics News

In such a homogeneous group as our Supreme Court, a Justice's intellectual ability to appreciate the situation of someone from a different background or in a different situation is essential.

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Representation, Empathy, and the Supreme Court

Howard Schweber | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Representation, Obama, Nominee, Empathy, Politics News

Any argument in favor of Obama choosing a woman or Hispanic should be made in terms of an expectation that such a justice will display a level of knowledge or imagination of social realities that would otherwise be unavailable.

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Empathy for Society's Child

Don McNay | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Empathy, Kentucky-Politics, Lobbyists, Janis Ian, President Obama, Addiction, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Obama, Apology, Obama Outsider, At Seventeen, Outsider, Dermotti Dawson, Bob Babbage, Louisville, Racism, Kentucky, Discrimination, Inter-Racial Dating, Louisville Courier-Journal, Lexington KY, Obama Empathy, Twelve Steps, Don McNay, Atonement, Barack Obama, Henry Clay High School, Geeks, Structured Settlements, Sports, Society's Child, Sports Illustrated, Apologies, Pittsburgh Steelers, Eastern Kentucky University, High School, Million Dollar Round Table, Confession, Lexington-Herald-Leader, Nerds, Politics News

I want someone on the United States Supreme Court who can look back at actions that were wrong, feel a sense of injustice and make amends, even if the act happened forty or fifty years ago.

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Loving Ourselves Unconditionally

John Morton | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Acceptance, Change, John Morton, Empathy, Cooperation, Spirit, Understanding, Unconditional Love, Enthusiasm, Loving, Spiritual Laws, God, Love, Gratitude, Spirituality, Living News

A key is to appreciate with gratitude whatever comes your way. Everything has value. Nothing needs to be different from what it is, including you.

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Empathy Fatigue and What the Press Can Do About It

Jamil Zaki | Posted 06.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Neuroscience, Empathy, Susan Sontag, Psychology, Hurricane Katrina, Media, Press, Prejudice, Barack Obama, Media News

The "CNN effect" describes how, by airing images of suffering, news outlets can create enormous pressure for governments to intervene, fueled by public outcry over the suffering of others.

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Empathy

Jonathan Richards | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Cartoon, Empathy, Political Cartoons, Politics News

Obama tries to slip a code word past the GOP, but they nail it. ...

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"Empathy" -- Who's Got It, Who Does Not

Dan Goleman | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama, Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Justice Souter, David Souter Retires, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Living News

There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate.

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Obama and the Age of Empathy

Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Empathy, Corporate America, Ceos, Corporate Greed, Wired to Care, Business News

Rather than look inward for additional cost cuts they can develop, it's high time that executives inside companies get outside of their bubbles and discover what the rest of the world needs from them.

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Self-Help 101: Compassion

Kay Goldstein | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Self Compassion, Meditation, Practice, Kristin Neff, Spiritual Path, Self-Judgment, Compassion, Self-Help, Robertthurman, Empathy, Barack Obama, Living News

Do we heap on another layer of judgment for our predicament? Or do we respond with gentleness and compassion?

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Adventures in Modern Eating: Had Enough Of Your Plate?

Carol Maric | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Pressure, Depression, Empathy, Affluence, Fiction, Microfiction, Micro Fiction, Recession, Stress, Politics, Hunger, Health, Satire, Flash Fiction, Food, Eating, Boredom, Philosophy, Business, Management, Jobs, Psychology, Living News

" Are you hungry? " " No. I am tired of eating. It is so high maintenance and costs too much. I am tir...

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Obama and the Science of Altruism

Jamil Zaki | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Togetherness, Community Service, Helping the Needy, Emotion, Charity, Empathy, Hope, Children, Brains, Altruism, Helping Others, Martin Luther King Jr., Science, Psychology, Obama Community Service, Peace Corps, Barack Obama, Helping the Poor, Giving Back to the Community, Emotions, Neuroscience, Brain, Martin Luther King, Volunteering, Kids, Service, Giving Back, Evolution, Politics News

Why would we have evolved to feel each other's pain? Two aspects of empathy can help explain this, and the reason that evolution may have selected for strong empathizers in the first place.

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A Jew's Prayer for the Children of Gaza

Bradley Burston | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

In this day, when the trepidation and rage and mourning that is called war, seizes our hearts and patches them in scars, we call to you, the Lord whose name is Peace.

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War Diary from Sderot

Nomika Zion | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Not in my name and not for me did you go into this war. The bloodbath in Gaza is not in my name nor for my security. Behind this accursed leadership of Hamas live human beings.

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The Economy, 2009: Brother Can You Spare A Dime?

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Obama Homelessness, Poverty, Bush Homelessness, Charity, Empathy, Homelessness, Sympathy, Bernie Madoff Victims, Documentary, New Years Resolution, New Disenfranchised, Recession, Involuntary American Nomads, Living News

Some woke up into this New Year with a square of sidewalk for a pillow and a cardboard box for a comforter. It used to be a few paychecks away from me. Now, I'm only a few weeks ahead of it.

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Mothers, Empathy, and Child Neglect

Dan Agin | Posted 01.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Child Neglect, Parenting, Empathy, Child Abuse, Children, Living News

The way we rear children has changed through history and it differs from one place to another. What also changes are views about child neglect.

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Notes from Election Day by a Gay White Liberal

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Election Day, Martin Luther King, Empathy, Sin, Racism, Liberal, California, Politics News

What does a gay, white liberal feel upon the election of the world's first African-American president at the moment America's biggest, bluest state votes to rip away my right to marry?

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Presidential Debates Round Two and Three: Show Us That You Care

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Emotions, John McCain, Empathy, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

The image of Barack Obama palling around with terrorists won't stick in people's minds if they see how his head for policy details works together with his heartfelt desire to help the many.

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Can Obama Appeal to White Rural Men?

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: White Men, Presidential Primaries, Rev Wright, Obama, Clinton, Breaking News, Hillary White Voters, Obama White Voters, Empathy, Abraham Lincoln, White Vote 2008, White Voters, Politics News

The notion that Obama "can't appeal" to white rural men sells short both Barack Obama and white men who live in rural America. It also flies in the face of the facts.

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