The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

by Frans de Waal

Many animals survive not by eliminating each other or keeping everything for themselves, but by cooperating and sharing.

Mood transfer via facial expressions and body language is so powerful that people doing it on a daily basis literally start to look alike.

Whatever we now think of the ethics of Harlow’s research, he proved beyond any doubt that deprivation of body contact is not something that suits mammals.

Rather than money, success, or fame, time spent with friends and family is what does people the most good.

Every society needs to strike a balance between selfish and social motives to ensure that its economy serves society rather than the other way around.