Articles for tag: EmotionalIntelligence, empathy, Kindness, psychology

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What Makes Us Feel Empathy?

Suhail Ahmed

  Empathy can feel almost magical: your chest tightens when a stranger cries on the subway, or you flinch watching someone stub a toe in a video. But beneath that wave of shared feeling lies a fiercely active brain, shaped by evolution, culture, and experience to tune into the minds of others. For decades, scientists ...

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Which Spirit Animal Reflects Your Emotional Strength?

Suhail Ahmed

  Across cultures and centuries, people have looked to animals to explain what makes a human heart keep going when the world turns rough. Today, scientists are mapping that old instinct onto modern psychology, finding that the creatures we identify with can reveal how we recover, adapt, and grow after stress. It’s not magic; it’s ...