@EdwinRutsch

Director: Center for Building a Culture of Empathy https://xitter.cf/t.co/V4QW8UZHOG

 Bay Area, California
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Joined August 2008
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MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy mindmatters.ai/brief/mit-psy…

MIT psychologist: Beware the chatbot’s artificial empathy

When the user says “Me, me, me!”, the bot can reply, “Yes, you, you, you!” Real relationships can never be like that because both parties are real.

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Time to Look Below the Waterline: From a Violence Paradigm to an Empathy Paradigm by Maša Blaznik linkedin.com/pulse/time-look…

Time to Look Below the Waterline

From a Violence Paradigm to an Empathy Paradigm Every system measures its progress by its own standards. When its outcomes fall short, it blames its parts: people, institutions, policies.

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Oceans of Empathy Exhibit at Boston Children's Museum prnewswire.com/news-releases…

Oceans of Empathy Exhibit at Boston Children's Museum

/PRNewswire/ -- Boston Children's Museum recently opened Oceans of Empathy highlighting works from two New England-based artists. The exhibit brings together...

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America's deep religious divide over empathy by  Russell Contreras axios.com/2026/10/20/religio…

Empathy divides Americans by religion, with white evangelicals standing apart

A religious split over empathy may deepen partisan divides.

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An ‘empathy gap' divides Americans ahead of the midterms, says PRRI report religionnews.com/2026/10/20/…

An ‘empathy gap' divides Americans ahead of the midterms, says PRRI report

(RNS) — A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God. The survey found that more than half of...

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Psychologist Jamil Zaki: Empathy Is a Skill You Can Train buzzsprout.com/1798971/episo…

Psychologist Jamil Zaki: Empathy Is a Skill You Can Train - Positive...

Jamil Zaki was eight when his parents began a divorce that took four years. To stay close to both of them, he had to work, every day, to understand two people who could no longer understand each...

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We Must Fight Health Misinformation With Empathy time.com/article/2026/10/04/…

We Must Fight Health Misinformation With Empathy

People reported being more likely to take advice when they believe, first, that their concerns and experience have been taken seriously, writes Dr. Megan L. Ranney.

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Empathy vs Sympathy: What's the Difference? (With Examples) sunbeamworldschool.com/blog/…

Empathy vs Sympathy: What's the Difference? (With Examples)

Empathy vs sympathy explained simply: key differences, real examples, what to say instead of "I'm sorry," and what research shows about teaching empathy.

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The American Empathy Project youtube.com/watch?v=Jyw3Y99p…

The American Empathy Project

This year, we awarded 101 grants to changemakers across the country...

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Empathy as a dynamic process: How Storytelling and Story Listening Transform Clinical Presence youtube.com/watch?v=8uZVVXZt…

How Storytelling and Story Listening Transform Clinical Presence

We tend to think of empathy and compassion as traits we either have...

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4 Strategies To Build A More Empathetic Team forbes.com/sites/sallypercy/…

4 Strategies To Build A More Empathetic Team

Empathy skills help to improve performance. From listening better to rewarding empathetic behaviors, leaders can follow four strategies to build better connected teams.

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Pretend Empathy Is Now a Product psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

Pretend Empathy Is Now a Product

Sherry Turkle calls what AI therapy offers "pretend empathy." Millions find it helpful. That's what makes it so hard to argue with, and so important too.

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‘Higher education needs more of the empathetic mindset’ timeshighereducation.com/cam…

‘Higher education needs more of the empathetic mindset’

Empathy, listening and imagination must remain central to how we educate future leaders, writes Lu Liu. The human qualities that make innovation meaningful are at risk when universities over-emphas...

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On Culture: Empathy as a source of inspiration culturatisummit.com/post/on-…

On Culture: Empathy as a source of inspiration

Empathy can inspire better leadership, stronger trust, and more humane strategy when it is practiced with judgment, listening, and care.

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Commentary: The significance of empathy in democracy – orlandosentinel.com/2026/07/…

Commentary: The significance of empathy in democracy

Democracy runs on listening, debating, and discussing, but this cannot be accomplished if the main goal of political discourse is to get the most clicks on social media.

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Are We Running Out of Empathy? On compassion fatigue in the age of relentless catastrophe and what it might be costing us all. linkedin.com/pulse/we-runnin…

Are We Running Out of Empathy? On compassion fatigue in the age of relentless catastrophe and what...

I remember when a single news story could stop a nation in its tracks. When images of suffering in a distant place would land, visibly and collectively, in our chests.

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The urgent need for an attitude paradigm: Empathy omanobserver.om/article/1182…

The urgent need for an attitude paradigm: Empathy

Over the last decade, the world has witnessed an upsurge in hate crimes, online toxicity, identity-based polarisation and cyberbullying within and...

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Exercising Empathy - by Jillian Lee Meyer theinnerworkout.substack.com…
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Wisconsin Empathy Project wisconsinempathyproject.org/…

Wisconsin Empathy Project

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Why Does a Curriculum That Looks Perfect on Paper Falter in the Classroom?  Empathy and Iteration thesedablog.wordpress.com/20…

Why Does a Curriculum That Looks Perfect on Paper Falter in the Classroom? 

Ayşe Betül Akdemir, PhD, Düzce University, Türkiye A companion blog to “Design-Driven Curriculum Development: Learner-Centred Innovation via Empathy and Iteration” (Innovations in Educati…

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