Empathy Definition | What Is Empathy - Greater Good
4 days ago · The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s …
What Middle Schoolers Can Teach Us About Empathy - Greater Good
Jun 24, 2025 · Empathy is a complex skill to learn and put into practice. We talked with middle schoolers about what it means to them.
Diversity Definition | What Is Diversity - Greater Good
Dec 22, 2025 · For the Greater Good Science Center, “diversity” refers to both an obvious fact of human life—namely, that there are many different kinds of people—and the idea …
Empathy | Greater Good
Jan 15, 2026 · The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s …
Compassion Definition | What Is Compassion - Greater Good
Jan 6, 2026 · Compassion literally means “to suffer together.” Among emotion researchers, it is defined as the feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s …
How to Avoid the Empathy Trap - Greater Good
Jul 7, 2015 · Empathy is having its moment. The ability to feel what another person is feeling, from that person’s perspective, generates lots of press as the ultimate positive value and the pathway to a …
How to Stay Empathic Without Suffering So Much - Greater Good
May 4, 2017 · If you frequently experience distress when you empathize with someone else, there is a biological basis for your heartache. A review of multiple brain imaging studies tells us that the person …
It has been suggested that empathy leads to altruistic rather than egoistic mo-tivation to help. This hypothesis was tested by having subjects watch another female undergraduate receive electric …
Compassion & Empathy Research: An Annotated… - Greater Good
May 1, 2004 · It is important to remember that Batson's definition of empathy is very similar to our definition of compassion: an other-oriented emotional response that includes sympathy, compassion, …
Why the World Needs an Empathy Revolution - Greater Good
Feb 1, 2019 · A new book explains how we can learn empathy and have better social interactions.