{"id":2079842,"date":"2019-06-10T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2079842"},"modified":"2019-06-10T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:24:23","slug":"cultivate-empathy-2079842-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/cultivate-empathy-2079842-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathy is a skill. 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Zaki has brought these insights, many from his own research, into his new book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/550616\/the-war-for-kindness-by-jamil-zaki\/9780451499240\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World<\/a><\/em> (Crown, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>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":"<p>The apparent trend toward division and away from empathy isn&#8217;t irreversible, according to new research. 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