Come join the Luna family debate about empathy. Does it do more good or harm in a zombie apocalypse? How about in today's world? What exactly is empathy anyway? And how can we learn to use it well?

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Further Reading:

• “Toronto Empathy Questionnaire” by Spreng et. al. (2009)
• Needle through hand video
• “Mirror neurons” by Acharya and Shukla (2012)
• “Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex” by Jabbi, Swart, and Keysers (2007)
• “Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity” by Barraza and Zak (2009)
• “Patterns of Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration” by Rankin, Kramer, and Miller (2005)
• “Is emotional contagion special?” by Nummenmaa et. al. (2008)
• “The relationships between social intelligence, empathy, and three types of aggression” by Kaukianinen et. al. (1999)
• “The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy” by Morelli, Lieberman, and Zaki (2015)
• “Maintenance of satisfaction in romantic relationships” by Davis and Oathout (1987)
• “The Neural Correlates of Empathy” by Rameson, Morelli, and Lieberman (2011)
• “Relationships Between Nurse‐Expressed Empathy, Patient‐Perceived Empathy and Patient Distress” by Olson (1995)
• “Racism and the Empathy for Pain on Our Skin” by Forgiarini, Gallucci, and Maravita (2011)
• “A Less Attractive Feature of Empathy” by Fourie, Subramoney and Gobodo‐Madikizela (2017)
• “A theory of unmitigated communion” by Helgeson and Fritz (1998)
• “Empathy is hard work” by Hutcherson et. al. (2019)
• “Compassion Fade” by Västfjäll et. al. (2014)
• “Empathy and Attitudes” by Batson et. al. (1997) 
• Against Empathy by Bloom (2016)

Produced by Scarlet Moon Things
Music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings