Empathy is a fashionable concept that is inviting itself into thoughts about relationship professions. The most common injunction concerns people in positions of authority. "The manager must be ...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so what better time to brush up on some commonly used terms? Most people know that empathy and sympathy involve understanding other people’s emotions and ...

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 ...

Whenever you utilize sympathy and empathy in your life, you’re sharing the very best of what you can offer both yourself and others. That’s why it’s important for all of us to manage the role they ...

After her father fell ill, Disha Zaidi shares how empathy from friends and family made a big impact. The phone call I had received from back home in India was one of those dreadful calls that we all ...

Artificial intelligence can provide empathy but that does not mean an adviser’s role will become redundant. Belinda Parmar, ...

‘Soft skills’ often get a bad rap. Most of us think of them as secondary to our primary job functions. But to be an effective leader, we have to do the hard things including work on what we term soft ...

In 1909, the psychologist Edward Titchener translated the German Einfühlung (‘feeling into’) into English as ‘empathy’. Empathy can be defined as a person’s ability to recognize and share the emotions ...