We're experiencing an empathy shortage, but we can fix it together

Name: We're experiencing an empathy shortage, but we can fix it together
Uploaded: 2021-02-11T19:25:47Z
Duration: 13 min 6 s
Description: "Being a psychologist studying empathy today is a little bit like being a climatologist studying the polar ice caps," says psychology professor Jamil Zaki. That's because according to research, our collective empathy is eroding. But there is good news: Empathy is a skill, it can be built, and he explains how he — and others — are doing just that.

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TEDxMarin

• September 2017

"Being a psychologist studying empathy today is a little bit like being a climatologist studying the polar ice caps," says psychology professor Jamil Zaki. That's because according to research, our collective empathy is eroding. But there is good news: Empathy is a skill, it can be built, and he explains how he — and others — are doing just that.

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Jamil Zaki

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Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

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We're experiencing an empathy shortage, but we can fix it together

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