Tag: empathy
According to a new scientific study in Science journal, reading literary fiction can greatly improve our ability to understand one another in complex social settings. Social psychologists at The New School, working within the relatively new field called “theory of the mind” conducted a series of five experiments measuring things such as “empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence.” Researchers have […]
The fact that we can read other humans’ emotional cues is old news, but behavioral scientists weren’t sure whether this empathy extended to other animals– until now. Science has confirmed that humans are, in fact, pretty good at reading dog’s emotions based on facial expression. Sometimes. In the study, led by Dr. Tina Bloom of […]
