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

In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have different effects based on how you p...

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

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

Empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of another person, is often viewed as a virtue that encourages helping behaviors. But people often don't want...

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

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 well known as it sho...

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 being. This can in...

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

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 second look offers clu...

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 drawn to the field of ...

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 our head verses our...

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

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

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

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

In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex region which, among...