Venezuelan architect Andrea Barreto is making a significant mark on the interior design landscape from her base in Florida.

As empathy came to denote the ability to accurately grasp another’s thoughts and feelings, the idea that it was an aesthetic projection of one’s own feelings into objects disappeared.

In Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer reimagines architecture as an act of empathy and participation. Sumedha Kelegama explores ...

Empathy is often related to a moral feeling, but the human ability to “feel into” others goes to the palpating heart of the aesthetic as well as the psychotherapeutic experience. Often ...

We should use fiction for empathy, aesthetic pleasure, examining ethical dilemmas and just the experience of escaping.” Ms. Levine taught high school English on the South Side of Chicago before ...

In a column for The New York Times this past January, Nicholas Kristof lamented what he called the country’s “empathy gap,” imploring his readers to grasp the complex circumstances that ...

Analyzing the brain scans revealed some interesting patterns. Highly empathic people tended to have significantly higher activation in their brains overall and, specifically, in the reward centers of ...

Empathy (the “em” means “into”) barged in from the German in the 20th century and gained popularity through its usage in fields like philosophy, aesthetics and psychology.