Jamil Zaki: How to Escape the Cynicism Trap
TED Talk // 2.10.22 // 13 min.
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Jamil Zaki: Fighting the War for Kindness
SXSW Sessions // 3.30.20 // 57 min.
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - May 25, 2020
Social media sees shift toward empathy during coronavirus pandemic
THE WASHINGTON POST - April 21, 2020
Fighting coronavirus feels like fighting a war. That might bring us together.
THE GIST WITH MIKE PESCA (SLATE) - April 1, 2020
What the coronavirus teaches us about human nature
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - March 28, 2020
Habits of kindness that will endure
NPR’s ON POINT - March 25, 2020
Kindness during the coronavirus crisis
THE HAPPINESS LAB WITH DR. LAURIE SANTOS - March 16, 2020
Beat your isolation loneliness
THE WASHINGTON POST - March 13, 2020
Social Distancing shouldn't mean losing human connection
CLEAR+VIVID WITH ALAN ALDA - December 16, 2019
Empathy and how to hack it
THE WASHINGTON POST - January 13, 2020
We volunteer to help others, but it helps us, too
THE WASHINGTON POST - December 1, 2019
In this angry and stressed-out time, research says we can learn to be kinder
HIDDEN BRAIN PODCAST (NPR) - July 29, 2019
You 2.0: The Empathy Gym
THE WASHINGTON POST - June 11, 2019
Empathy is on the decline in this country. A new book describes what we can do to bring it back.
FUTURITY - June 10, 2019
Empathy is a skill. Here’s how to cultivate it.
MASHABLE - June 8, 2019
Empathy is a skill. Here are 5 ways to get better at it.
THE ECONOMIST - June 7, 2019
How to increase empathy and unite society
THE GOOP PODCAST - June 6, 2019
Getting through Empathy Overload
NPR - June 5, 2019
'A War For Kindness' Favors The Practical Over Polemical
STANFORD NEWS - June 5, 2019
Stanford scholar examines how to build empathy in an unjust world
LITERARY HUB - May 30, 2019
The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW - May 30, 2019
Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture
GREATER GOOD - May 29, 2019
In a Divided World, We Need to Choose Empathy
NAUTILUS - May 23, 2019
Can We Revive Empathy in Our Selfish World?
THRIVE GLOBAL - April 12, 2019
The War for Kindness shows us how to "bring light to a world that seemingly has darkened."
Photo: Sarah Deragon
"Jamil Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab. Using tools from psychology and neuroscience, he and his colleagues examine how empathy works and how people can learn to empathize more effectively. His writing on these topics has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two daughters." -- Author's site