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Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society is a lesson for humans, culled from studies on primate behavior. The fascinating lessons push the boundaries between man and animal. The book is also a plea for the use in human society of the concept of ‘living together.’ Frans de Waal, a multi-awarded primatologist and [...]

Oprah may be deemed as success personified. Her phenomenon is huge. Everything about her comes in superlative proportions: her earnings, hairdo wealth, mansions, gift of gab, heart, TV show, magazine, body mass index, global influence, etc. ‘She moves entire industries. Twitter’s traffic surged 43% after she tweeted for the first time. A recommendation [...]

Are you an empathic person? If so, you probably have a flair for sensing people’s feelings, reading their facial emotions and perhaps recognizing their smell as well rather easily. A recent collaborative study conducted by Wen Zhou and Denise Chen shows the evidence of the behavioral connection between a sensory system and emotional possessing. They [...]