Empathy

Did More Arts Education Raise Test Scores? A Lottery of 10,000 Students Answers

Forty-two Houston schools were assigned by lottery to a large expansion of arts programming. Reading, math, and science did not move at all. Three other things did — and the study also demolishes the argument for cutting the arts.

To Help Others, Children Must First Feel Safe — What 465 Kids Revealed About the Roots of Empathy

Securely attached children responded to others’ pain with empathic concern; insecurely attached children were overwhelmed by their own distress. A two-study experiment with 465 preschoolers shows that emotional safety is the foundation empathy grows from.