Empathy can seem like just what's needed in an age of deep polarization, right? But psychologists and neurologists are discovering that empathy can actually have a really dark side. Here's Invisibilia ...

Empathy seems like a good quality in human beings. Pure and simple. It allows us to consider the perspective of others — to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine their experiences. From that ...

We begin with a fairy tale... Fritz Breithaupt is a cognitive neuroscientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the role of narrative in our lives. In his book The Narrative ...