It is important that we exercise empathy and compassion throughout the year and recognize those who have meaningful impacts ...

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. Photo: Anthony Wallace/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/Hans Pennink/Associated Press Walking down ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

I have two sons, 5 and 6. While having them 12 months apart wasn’t the plan, it’s what it is. What I’m finding is that my boys aren’t close. They love each other and are excited to see one another ...

Following the 2020 George Floyd incident in Minneapolis and the emergence of Black Lives Matter-inspired criminal justice reform, a movement swept across many of America’s big cities, treating violent ...

Many people assume empathy is too soft, too subjective, or too deeply personal to quantify. In our own survey, nearly half of the respondents agreed that “it is impossible to measure empathy.” This ...

Empathy was once considered too soft and squishy for the world of work, but decades of research have shattered that myth. Empathy includes three pieces: sharing others’ experiences, trying to ...

When you think of leg day, you might automatically picture yourself profusely sweating as you drop into a squat, lower into a deadlift, or glide into a hip thrust. Just make sure you don’t sleep on ...

An event at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton next week aims to help students and the broader community better understand the struggles to put food on the table with rising costs of housing, ...