And would you pay them a bonus for being empathic?

As humans, we are social, we are empathic, and that's great.

It's a completely empathic solution apart from the fact that teddy's probably not loving it.

Also, we know that people who have a lot of yawn contagion are highly empathic.

And it's really unfair to humanity, because humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than given credit for.

We work to promote healthy vibrant societies, to ameliorate human suffering, to promote a more thoughtful, substantive, empathic world order.

The Dali Lama was saying, we've kind of failed in religion to create a really compassionate, empathic life for many many people, and he said,

Not particularly the world's best design solution for those of us who are real, sort of, hard core designers, but nonetheless, a fabulous empathic solution for people.

I wanted to be, as I later thought of it, empathic, which is to say, to feel what they wanted to say and to be an agent of their self revelation.

Ultimately what it does is it actually creates a tide of mindfulness, you're becoming an observer of your behavior, just like this woman in Chicago, you're becoming someone who can observe and stand aside, that makes you more reflective, it also surprise me that makes people more empathic and more caring.

The synchrony of emotions that we experience when we hear an opera by Wagner, or a symphony by Brahms, or chamber music by Beethoven, compels us to remember our shared, common humanity, the deeply communal connected consciousness, the empathic consciousness that neuropsychiatrist Iain McGilchrist says is hard wired into our brain's right hemisphere.