Collective actions are a term for “actions taken by two or more people in pursuit of the same collective good.” While some collective actions have already resulted in influencing public opinion or policies, there are many other examples of collective actions failing to bring about change. Let’s not allow this one to pass-by us. We…
by Chris Reinders FolmerNovartis Foundation symposium Psychologists have proposed that empathy-related responding, including caring or sympathetic concern, motivates moral behavior, especially prosocial behaviour, inhibits aggression and other antisocial behaviours, and contributes to the broader domain of social competence (Eisenberg & Fabes 1998, Hoffman, 2000). Thus, psychologists have increasingly recognized the potential importance of empathy-related responding…
