Our new book probes animal minds, celebrates the richness of animal emotions, and highlights the power of compassion and hope ...

Those who do well on human empathy tests are also measurably better at decoding the emotional sounds of animals, according to a new study from the University of Copenhagen. Other aspects, such as age ...

From a quiet cat watching over a grieving teenager to a dog gently guiding a child away from danger, these stories of pets ...

Empathy. It's that profound ability to not just recognize, but truly feel and share the emotions of another. For a long time, scientists largely confined this complex psychological trait to the realm ...

Empathy in animals encompasses a range of processes whereby individuals perceive, share, and respond to the emotional states of conspecifics, often leading to demonstrably prosocial behaviours.

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In a laboratory, people matter: a key contributor to good animal welfare is the presence of compassionate caretakers. Research has shown that a “belief in animal mind” (BAM)—seeing animals as ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

In his deeply thoughtful and important book, economist Nicolas Treich considers direct (animal-centered) and indirect ...

If empathy were an animal, it would undoubtedly be on the endangered species list–potentially on the cusp of meeting a fate comparable to the woolly mammoth or the saber-toothed cat. Since 1973, the ...

A new study reveals that prairie voles console loved ones who are feeling stressed—and it appears that the infamous "love hormone," oxytocin, is the underlying mechanism. Until now, consolation ...