• The Empathy Wars: Declining connection in a divided world

  • Apr 3 2025
  • Length: 46 mins
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The Empathy Wars: Declining connection in a divided world

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  • This isn’t therapy… it’s part three in our series about the war on human connection. In this episode, we talk about how overwhelming people with tragic and distressing information about the world leads to a decline in empathy. Jake and Simon discuss how a decline in rates of empathy affect our ability to practice perspective taking and experience empathic concern.

    Article: Empathy Is Dying And So Are We by Rita Jabbour

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    • Simon Paluck - Host
    • Jake Ernst - Host

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    Original music composed by Kat Burns and performed by KASHKA.
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