A new scientific review challenges the popular assumption that highly intelligent people possess a naturally heightened capacity for feeling the emotions of others. The analysis suggests that ...

I’ve just witnessed the wielding of a superpower. You see, my son has a highly developed sense of what other people are feeling. At this moment, it’s manifesting in the form of a tantrum, which ...

Before looking at the way empathy has recently been under attack, it helps to understand what it is and what it isn’t. Professor Gad Saad calls empathy a “noble emotion,” but it’s not an emotion. A ...