empathy

It was the idea of having open-air lessons on the top of a building that really grabbed Richard and Lewis Edwards-Middleton’s children. Their four-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son were reading Munni’s Rooftop School, from Save the Children’s Wonderbooks series, and the school in question just sounded like so much fun. But there was more to the book that made it memorable. “Building on that fun, interesting element was the actual story around it, and how different it is in different countries,” says Richard. Those…

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.Envelope Actress Roundtable. This week saw the first of this year’s Envelope roundtables released, recorded in-person for the first time since 2019. Amy Kaufman sat down with Angela Bassett for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Kerry Condon for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Emma Corrin for “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” Danielle Deadwyler for “Till,” Laura Dern for “The Son” and Janelle Monáe for “Glass Onion: A Knives…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Feeling empathy for others is deeply engrained into our biology, as seeing another individual in pain triggers an empathic response in the brain of the observer, which allows us to understand and feel what other feels. However, our capacity to feel empathy for the suffering of others is unfortunately not equal towards all human beings.…

In the US, we are feeling the sickening after-effects of an attempted insurrection committed by people, many of whom, before that day, had never acted against their country or shown the least sign of being violent. What’s happening over here? Good question. And the truth is, nobody knows.But here’s one way of looking at it: these people were told a false story and acted on it, with a level of passion and violence that would suggest true belief.That false story – a set of false stories, really, bundled together – came to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dartmouth College, Babson College, and LUISS University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that shows how to de-escalate customer anger on social media sites by using language that signals active listening and empathy. …

Are the National the most important American alternative group of their generation? Perhaps, though it would be as much from their members’ activities outside the parent band as because of their own music. Bryce and Aaron Dessner, the twin brothers who play guitar and write the music, have become central collaborators and curators to a whole swathe of American music, running festivals and writing and producing with everyone from Kronos Quartet to Taylor Swift. Evidently, their creative needs cannot be contained within a…

At age 19, Olivia Rodrigo has already scored two No. 1 singles. She’s hung out with the president at the White House. She’s won three Grammy Awards, including the coveted best new artist prize.What the pop sensation hadn’t done until Tuesday was play a real-deal concert in Los Angeles, not far from where she grew up as a child actor in Temecula.That changed with the first of two sold-out hometown shows at the Greek Theatre, part of a world tour — Rodrigo’s high-profile bow as a live performer — behind her smash 2021…