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Questions the widely held assumption that human beings are selfish and aggressive by nature and presents knowledge gained in the last twenty years about the socialization practices and experiences that shape caring, helpful, and altruistic persons.

In this training program, viewers are made aware of the importance of listening with empathy, and how it impacts on the communication process. By watching this program, you will learn about important characteristics of effective listening such as: Body language--Showing empathy and understanding-- Providing support--Clarifying by asking questions and paraphrasing

The book begins with a discussion of the current understanding of empathy in neurological, biological, and behavioral terms. The authors explain why empathy is important on both the individual and societal levels. They then introduce the concepts of interpersonal empathy and social empathy, and how these processes can interrelate or operate separately. Finally, they examine the weaknesses of extant empathy assessments before introducing three new,...

This book argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity.

In this series, Dr. Carl Rogers defines empathy; traces the development of his work on the topic; and discusses the relationship of empathy to personal growth, learning, and self-identity. This lecture/presentation, given by Carl Rogers, is about the effects of empathic responses on recipients and the relationship between empathy and self-exploration and identity.

This is a partial human infant replication of seminal rodent work on maternal care and epigenetic with novel findings on the importance of breastfeeding.

"A powerful, practical guide for cultivating compassion--the scientifically proven foundation for personal achievement and success at work, at home, and in the community. For decades, we've been told the key to prosperity is to look out for number one. But recent science shows that to achieve durable success, we need to be more than just achievers; we need to be compassionate achievers. New research in biology, neuroscience, and economics have found...

Focusing on what families and family values are, the authors argue how viewing the world population as one big family will lead to a more sustainable civilization.

"Discover an eye-opening and provocative new way to look at our health based on the latest groundbreaking discoveries in the science of compassion, kindness, and human connection. For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of stories--mysteries--that doctors and research cannot explain. Patients who are biologically healthy, but feel ill. Patients who are biologically ill, but feel healthy. What if these health mysteries could teach us something...

"In this brilliant book, [authors] examine the pleasures and perils of kindness. Modern people have been taught to perceive ourselves as fundamentally antagonistic to one another, our motives self-seeking. Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social theory, this book explains how and why we have chosen loneliness over connection. On Kindess argues that a life lived in instinctive, sympathetic identification...