Apathy often stems from a lack of concern or understanding towards others’ experiences, emotions, and struggles. However, ...

Sympathy is understanding someone's emotions and empathy is feeling them.

When a friend is suffering from some misfortune, loss, or stressful experience, we want to be able to commiserate in a way that is both helpful and supportive. Whether it’s a physical problem, like a ...

In part one of my interview with Belinda Bauman, founder of One Million Thumbprints, a movement of peacemakers advocating with women in the world's worst conflict zones, she asserted that empathy can ...

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 ...