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The war for kindness : building empathy in a fractured world / Jamil Zaki.

by Zaki, Jamil, 1980-

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Social psychology.

9780451499240 (hc.)

261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

The surprising mobility of human nature -- Choosing empathy -- Hatred versus contact -- The stories we tell -- Caring too much -- Kind systems -- The digital double edge -- The future of empathy.

"Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In 2006, Barack Obama said that the United States is suffering from an “empathy deficit.” Since then, things only seem to have gotten worse. It doesn’t have to be this way. In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait — something we’re born with or not — but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort. He also tells the stories of people who embody this new perspective, fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. We meet a former neo-Nazi who is now helping extract people from hate groups, ex-prisoners discussing novels with the judge who sentenced them, Washington police officers changing their culture to decrease violence among their ranks, and NICU nurses fine-tuning their empathy so that they don’t succumb to burnout."--From publisher.

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