A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a two-day public workshop ...

The study looked into the difference between those who experience trauma and those who witness traumatic events.

Scientists have uncovered a dedicated brain circuit that distinguishes between direct fear and fear learned by observing others—known as vicarious fear.

Women are more generous with money, but men are better at reading maps. Here’s the science behind the brain battle of the ...

Empathy doesn't just navigate existing paths—it creates entirely new ones that rigid thinking would never discover. According to Wharton's business journal, your brain works better when you ...

Elon Musk, the self-driving car crash in human form, has coughed up yet another of his trillions of daily aerosolised brain ...

I realized that, ironically, it was a good thing that I was feeling so bad. It meant the empathy I’d spent years cultivating hadn’t left me. It shouldn’t be easy for leaders to make tough ...