Study reveals how the "love hormone" oxytocin plays a critical role in the formation of emotional contagion.
Study reveals how the brain juggles morally conflicting outcomes while learning, finding people who opt to make decisions for personal gain at the expense of others can comprehend and empathize with potential negative outcomes, but still ultimately choose to pursue options that benefit them.
Children constantly assist others every time they need help if there is no personal cost to helping, a new study reports.
A new study of over 300,000 people that spans 57 countries reveals women are, on average, more empathetic than males. Consistent across all age groups and most nationalities, women tend to score higher on tests of cognitive empathy, or "theory of mind" than males.
People who score higher for empathy traits are better able to understand and decode the emotional sounds of animals.
Inhibiting imitation of others increases empathy and allows people to recognize the facial expression of others, regardless of their situation.
Those on the autism spectrum are more likely to consider the body and mind to be one, while those not on the autism spectrum are more likely to believe the body and the mind are separate entities.
Empathy is induced by synchronized neural oscillations in the right hemisphere of the brain, a new mouse study reveals.
After the loss of a pet, many people report experiencing disenfranchised grief that can not be resolved and may turn into complicated grief. Validating a person's sense of grief with empathy and understanding can help resolve the pain of loss following the death of a pet.
The ability to empathize, or share the pain of others is mapped onto neurons in the insula, a new study reports.
The same brain system that helps us to avoid danger is also activated during selfless, helping behaviors, allowing us to help others in danger.
Powerful hierarchical situations make it easier for individuals to commit harmful actions. The reason for this, researchers say, is because empathy and agency become split across multiple individuals.
