The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences

Synopsis

A Neuroscience-based View That Argues Not Only That Empathy Is Necessary For Our Personal Happiness And Planetary Survival, But Its Essential Components, How To Gain Them, And How To Use Them In Any Circumstance-- Shared Mind Intelligence -- How Empathy Works -- The Empathy Spectrum -- The Seven Keys Of E.m.p.a.t.h.y -- Who's In, Who's Out? -- Growing Up With Empathy -- The Abcs Of Empathy In Education -- Texts, Screens And Digital Empathy -- Empathy, Art And Literature -- Leadership And The Politics Of Empathy -- Digging Deep For Empathy -- Self-empathy. Helen Riess, Md, With Liz Neporent ; Foreword By Alan Alda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.