Research over the last decade has shown that loneliness is an important determinant of health. It is associated with considerable...

We like people like us. However, as we age, we get even more selective about our friendship groups. When humans age, they tend to favor...

People who binge-drink show more extensive dysfunction across their brains than previously realised, a new study from the University of...

I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional...

In Training and in Reflective Practice sessions the issue of empathy, relationships and outcomes is often discussed. This is...

In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have different...

I have often said that what we really know about psychology is what we actually know about psychology students. These tend to be the...

Interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) will become an increasingly common aspect of our lives. A team at the Technical University...

Empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of another person, is often viewed as a virtue that encourages helping behaviors. But...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute and the Santa Fe Institute have developed a new model to explain the evolutionary origins of...

A great privilege of running this blog is to share some of the work of practitioners who have inspired me but whose work is not often as...

Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...

People who empathize easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair...

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler's story -- one that upon a...

Is there such a thing as an evil personality type? This is a challenging question for many in the field. By and large, people who are...

I love what moral dilemmas can tell us about our brains and how we make decisions. This is a great example of a moral dilemma which pits...

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than...

Recently, researchers have debunked the theories canonized in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People that assume you...

In lecturers and training on adolescent development I often discuss the emergence of empathy during puberty. Now research has caught the...

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...