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A Therapist Attempts to Explain Trump's Behavior So Far -- Science ... » Jan 25, 2017 ...He is still sending ill-advised tweets, including one this morning in which he, despite having not communicated with Chicago's leadership on the idea, threatened to send “the feds” to the Windy City to deal with the gun-violence problem there (apparently he saw an O'Reilly Factor segment on it). This has... Thecut.com

Pay Attention to Sondheim and Weidman's 'Assassins' Now » Jul 13, 2017 ...The claim was that the production, by staging a 400-year-old assassination scene with a Trump stand-in, was encouraging violence toward our current president. This week, City ...It is only by facing these people and experiencing this radical empathy that we can hope to change. There's a line early in... Vulture.com

On the Cover: An Experiment in Radical Empathy -- New York Media ... » Dec 26, 2016 ...Can 16 strangers—some who say guns saved their lives, others who lost their children to bullets—find any sort of common ground? For its December 26, 2016- January 8, 2017 cover story by contributing editor Lisa Miller, New York organized an experiment in radical empathy through story exchange,... Nymag.com

An Overhyped Study About Video-Game Violence -- Science of Us » Apr 14, 2016 ...In light of the welcome current focus on sexism, harassment of women, and crimes like rape, it's understandable that a new study in PLOS One claiming to have found, as the Ohio State headline puts it, that “Sexist video games decrease empathy for female violence victims” is getting some attention, with... Thecut.com

The Hardest Commandment » Feb 19, 2017 ...Dec26-Jan8_2017_Guns.nocrop.w710.h2147483647 - cropped This week the senior staff spent a day and a half in intensive staff development. This is notable, because we rarely have occasion to spend this much time all together in one place, and honestly most of us came into the experience pretty sure it... Patheos.com

Frank Rich: No Sympathy for the Hillbilly » Mar 19, 2017 ...The outbreak of Hillbilly Chic among liberals is an inverted bookend to Radical Chic, the indelible rubric attached by Tom Wolfe in 1970 (in this magazine) to .... She wanted “to scale the empathy wall” and “unlock the door to the Great Paradox” of why working-class voters cast ballots for politicians actively... Nymag.com

Happy People Aren't Always Great at Empathy » Nov 25, 2014 ...Perpetually happy individuals are wonderful to have around, until you experience something worth complaining about. Recent research in PLOS ONE suggests that people who are generally cheerful are not so great at reading other people's negative emotions, though what's especially interesting is that... Thecut.com

Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism? » Sep 19, 2017 ...I don't just mean the rise of political polarization (although that's how it often expresses itself), nor the rise of political violence (the domestic terrorism of the late ....The absence of compulsory military service meant that our wars would be fought disproportionately by one tribe, and the rise of radical Islamic... Nymag.com

The Best Movies on Netflix Right Now -- Vulture » May 4, 2017 ...We can see now that Gregory Peck was the quintessential hot dad as gun-toting, wisdom-dispensing, pipe-smoking patriarch Atticus Finch, but the film's true powers are transportive; ...Basically, but in Lars von Trier's hands, the prompt conjures up carnal desire, emasculating violence, and a talking fox. Vulture.com

Can Gun Victims and Gun Advocates Change Each Other's Minds? » Dec 26, 2016 ...Jeremy Waldron, 18, a senior in high school on Chicago's South Side, where gun violence has made even going to school dangerous, sat down .....If Samaria Rice had made me wonder at the utility of empathy as an implement for change, Todd and Carolyn proved that radical empathy is at least possible. Nymag.com