Empathy refers to the ability to understand how a person feels and to experience their emotions. Sympathy refers to feeling for another, such as feeling sorry for them, without actually feeling their ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley, and Kim Strassel. Walking down Sixth Avenue in New York recently, I was mesmerized by a Salvation Army dude with ...

When I was asked to write a book on empathy back in 2012, I dove into the research and found a great deal of confusion and a great many things that concerned me. First, there was very little agreement ...