Why Being Kind Can Make You Healthy (Advanced Program)
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The Science of Empathy
Helen Reese is the director of a program that teaches people how to use and improve empathy. She wrote a paper called The Science of Empathy. In it, she explained why people have empathy. Why is the human brain designed this way? If life were only the result of survival of the fittest, we would only fight people. Our ability to see others suffering allows us to feel and understand their pain. Being kind reduces our own distress.
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