Evidence suggests that there are differences in the capacity for empathy between males and
females. However, how deep do these differences go? Stereotypically, females are …

Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

The last decade has witnessed enormous growth in the neuroscience of empathy. Here, we
survey research in this domain with an eye toward evaluating its strengths and weaknesses …

Empathy—the ability to share the feelings of others—is fundamental to our emotional and
social lives. Previous human imaging studies focusing on empathy for others' pain have …

Experiences of social rejection, exclusion or loss are generally considered to be some of the
most'painful'experiences that we endure. Indeed, many of us go to great lengths to avoid …

Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals'
capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may …

Empathy is an integral part of socioemotional well-being, but recent research has
highlighted some of its downsides. Here we examine literature that establishes when, how …

Research in the scientific literature increasingly demonstrates that empathy consists of
multiple dimensions, and that defining empathy as a single encompassing term may be …

Research in emotion regulation has largely focused on how people manage their own
emotions, but there is a growing recognition that the ways in which we regulate the emotions …

In the last decade, the phenomenon of empathy has received widespread attention by the
field of social neuroscience. This has provided fresh insights for theoretical models of …