Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Do you ever feel selfish for not caring enough or showing less empathy? Here’s ...

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Deep in the heart of busy season, probably the last thing on your mind is feeling empathy for your clients when they've been procrastinating and are so disorganized. But in an increasingly competitive ...

When you think of a person who fits the definition of psychopath, you undoubtedly imagine someone who, in addition to lacking remorse, is incapable of ordinary human empathy. This assumption is so ...

In debates among academics, journalists, and across dinner tables around the globe, people question whether social media is making modern society less empathic. These types of debates occur ...

For years, empathy has been the soft skill many leaders paid lip service to but struggled to operationalize. Customer experience executives put it in presentations. HR leaders championed it in ...

More precisely, empathy is the capacity to put yourself into someone else’s position; to understand or feel what they’re experiencing. An early 20C English coinage, it derives from the Greek ἐμπάθεια ...