Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Cheryl Robinson covers areas of leadership, pivoting and careers. Motivated by their daughter's loneliness, Cindy and Anne ...

Dan, a 71-year-old retired pilot, was recuperating at home after experiencing an ischemic stroke. Depressed and living alone, he described feeling comforted by the health care team that visited his ...

This is a time of much political division among people in our society. Can doctors help to heal it? Unfortunately, when it comes to the world of medicine and health care, there is not a clear-cut ...

For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. ‍Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too narrowly — ...

This review highlights 3 approaches that foster empathy or artificial empathy through mimicking interpersonal interaction: multiplayer games that strengthen real-time social connections, and social ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often portrayed as a disruptive force in healthcare, raising concerns about whether machines will one day replace human clinicians. Yet, the emerging reality is far ...

Empathy is essential for satisfying relationships. Understanding the different types of empathy, building our empathy, and learning to relate to others can help us identify toxic dynamics, be ...

(CNN) — It doesn’t often feel as if we’re living in empathetic times. Over the past two decades, partisan gaps on all the issues included in a Gallup analysis have widened or remained roughly the same ...