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Study challenges perception that empathy erodes during medical school.
University of Chicago News
September 7, 2017
Far from bolstering generosity: a religious upbringing dimishes it.
The Economist
November 7, 2015
Religion makes children more selfish.
Forbes
November 5, 2015
Brain waves predict which kids will share.
Futurity
December 19, 2014
The superhero tendency.
The Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
April 10, 2014
Psychopaths might have an impaired empathy circuit.
Mind & Brain – Scientific American
January 13, 2014
New frontiers in social neuroscience.
The Wall Street Journal
April 23, 2013
L’altruisme éclairé par un séisme.
Le Monde
February 13, 2013
How disasters and trauma can affect children’s empathy.
Time Magazine
January 22, 2013
Research shows the brain quickly determines intent of harmful actions.
Chicago Tribune
January 16, 2013
Unshakable humanity: Altruism and disaster.
The Huffington Post
January 15, 2013
Understanding psychopathic and sadistic minds.
Time Magazine
May 14, 2012
Empathy – the South African way.
University of Cape Town News
March 12, 2012
Rats show empathy and free their trapped companions.
Time Magazine
Dec 8, 2011
A new model of empathy: the rat.
Washington Post
Dec 8, 2011
Prison research to examine neural circuitry of criminal psychopaths.
News Medical
Aug 2, 2011
Moral responses change as people age.
National Science Foundation
Jun 2, 2011
New Society for Social Neuroscience to help guide emerging field.
UChicago News
Dec 9, 2010
What would you do if your cruise ship stopped in Haiti?
The Globe and Mail, Toronto
Jan 23, 2010
Les médecins endurcis à la douleur.
Le Figaro
Feb 3, 2010
Primer diálogo sobre el cerebro.
La Nation, Buenos Aires
Nov 4, 2009
Sadism in the brain.
Dana Foundation
Feb 19, 2009
Loneliness as bad for health as smoking and obesity.
The Med Guru
Feb 17, 2009
Mobbare njuter när andra lider.
Dalarnas Tidningar (Sweden)
Feb 20, 2009
Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain.
National Geographic
Nov 7, 2008
Brain Scans Show Bullies Enjoy Others’ Pain.
Washington Post
Nov 7, 2008
Bullying tendency wired in brain.
BBC News
Nov 7, 2008
Empathy comes naturally to children: study.
Reuters
Jul 11, 2008
Kids feel your (especially intentionally) inflicted pain.
USA Today
Jul 11, 2008
You remind me of me.
New York Times
Feb 12, 2008
Doctors’ brains curb response to patients’ pain.
American Medical News
Nov 5, 2007
Doctors regulate their pain responses to better treat patients.
The University of Chicago News Office
Sep 27, 2007
How your brain allows you to walk in another’s shoes.
Wall Street Journal
Aug 17, 2007
A neurological basis for psychiatric delusions.
The Tripe Helix
Nov 1, 2006
Faculty members honored with professorships, new scholars welcomed.
Science News Online
Jan 19, 2006
Who we are.
Embo Reports
Jun 10, 2005
Search for sympathy uncovers patterns of brain activity.
Innovations Report
Mar 12, 2002
The University of the Free State
South Africa, starts lecture series on reconcilliation and empathy.
Feb 28, 2012
L’altruismo non è solo umano
Corriere Della Sera
Dec 11, 2011
Rats feel each other’s pain.
Science Now
Dec 8, 2011
Becoming compassionately numb.
The New York Times
Oct 1, 2011
Why doctors should be more empathetic-but not too much more.
Scientific American
Apr 26, 2011
The animal-cruelty syndrom.
The New York Times
Jun 7, 2010
Docs don’t feel your pain much – and that’s best.
World Science
Jan 20, 2010
Comportamiento / Las raíces de la empatía y la moral.
La Nation, Buenos Aires
Nov 8, 2009
Aimer voir souffrir.
Sciences Humaines
Mar 1, 2009
Researchers shed new light on connection between brain and loneliness.
University of Chicago News Office
Feb 15, 2009
Loneliness affects how the brain operates.
Science Daily
Feb 17, 2009
Le cerveau social.
Sciences Humaines
Nov 2009
Bullies’ brain light up with pleasure as people squirm.
National Science Foundation
Nov 7, 2008
Bullies may get kick out of seeing others in pain.
Reuters
Nov 7, 2008
Bullies may enjoy seeing others in pain: Brain scans show disruption in natural empathetic response.
University of Chicago News Office
Jul 11, 2008
Children hardwired for empathy, say brain researchers.
CBC News, Canada
Jul 11, 2008
Children are naturally prone to be empathic and moral.
Physorg
Jul 11, 2008
Sorry, but I can’t help you.
Newsweek
Nov 3, 2007
Physicians Learn to Suppress Empathy Reaction, Study Shows.
Washington Post
Oct 1, 2007
Doctors suppress response to patients’ pain, brain scans reveal.
Times London
Sep 27, 2007
Human hard-wired for morality?
Washington Post
May 29, 2007
The mentalizing network and its role in recognizing envy and gloating.
Medscape Today
Jun 6, 2007
Self-serve brains.
The University of Chicago Chronicle
Feb 11, 2006
PET Uncovers Patterns in Emotional Brain Activity.
SNM Advancing molecular imaging abd therapy
Dec 2, 2005
Study examines neural correlates of sympathy, by E. Benson. APA Monitor on Psychology
American Psychological Association
March 2003
Sympathetic view.
The Weekend Australian, Sydney, Australia
Dec 7, 2002
Brain function linked to sympathy.
Health-news.co.uk, London, England
Dec 4, 2002
Knowing our imitations, by India Morrison.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Feb 16, 2002
Neuroscientists searching for roots of empathy find brain regions involved in learning by imitation.
University of Washington Office of News and Information, Seattle
Jan 22, 2002
Our empathic brain.
Discover
Sep 1, 2001