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Parents with depression report less empathy for their kids
Parents with greater depression symptoms report experiencing less empathy—even toward their own children, according to a new study. That could have significant long-term negative effects, the...
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Interviews clarify tension between homicide detectives, bereaved
New research documents the often tense relationship between homicide detectives and the friends and families of murder victims. Criminologists Mark Reed and Dean Dabney collected data from homicide...
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Personality shifts might also change your politics
Changes in personality may also lead to changes in political ideologies, researchers report. “We found this interesting effect where people wanted to improve on things like being more emotionally...
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‘Handmorph’ makes grip smaller to up empathy for kids
A new device called HandMorph could help adults experience what it’s like to interact with the world with hands the size of a child’s. As an adult, it’s hard to imagine how children experience a world...
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Intervention curbs violence against kids with mental illness
Anti-stigma interventions that promote acceptance and empathy can reduce experiences of violence and bullying among students with mental illnesses, a new study shows. For the study in the Journal of...
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Do people pick empathy for animals or other humans?
New research digs into whether people are more likely to feel empathy for animals than other humans. In short, the answer is complicated. The findings could have implications for framing messages to...
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Virtual reality trip as sea turtle ups empathy
A virtual reality simulation called Project Shell, lets people take on the body of a loggerhead sea turtle. Participants in Project Shell don a virtual reality headset and sport flippers instead of...
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Experiment links perceiving emotions in music and people
People who can skillfully interpret other people’s emotional states may also be better at assessing the emotions conveyed by music, new research shows. Humans have been making music throughout recorded...
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More empathetic people better understand animal sounds
People who do well on human empathy tests are also measurably better at decoding the emotional sounds of animals, according to a new study. Other aspects, such as age and work related to animals, are...
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To avoid cheating, take your partner’s perspective
Perspective-taking—or putting yourself in our partner’s shoes—reduces the temptation to cheat, research finds. It also inoculates against other partnership-destroying behaviors, according to the study...
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