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The apparent trend toward division and away from empathy isn’t irreversible, according to new research.<\/p>\n

Empathy is a skill that one can cultivate over time, Stanford University psychologist Jamil Zaki finds, and with the right practices, anyone\u2014even the most close-minded individuals\u2014can come to care about other people in healthy and sustainable ways.<\/p>\n

While empathy offers numerous social benefits\u2014for example, patients of empathic doctors are more satisfied with their care\u2014empathy might not be a good thing, Zaki says. When healthcare professionals care too much, they are at elevated risk for burnout, depression, and trauma from over-empathizing with others’ suffering, he says.<\/p>\n

These are some of the key findings to emerge from Zaki’s research into the various dimensions of empathy. Zaki has brought these insights, many from his own research, into his new book, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World<\/a><\/em> (Crown, 2019).<\/p>\n

Here, Zaki talks about what he learned about empathy, from experiments he led in his own lab to the research and interviews he conducted for the book:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The apparent trend toward division and away from empathy isn’t irreversible, according to new research. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":2079862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2588,266,763,1458],"class_list":["post-2079842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-society-culture","tag-beliefs","tag-emotions","tag-empathy","tag-social-lives","post_format-post-format-quote","university-stanford-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEmpathy is a skill. 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