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Jamil Zaki

Jamil Zaki is a Stanford psychologist and neuroscientist whose work explores empathy, social connection, trust, and prosocial behavior. He directs the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab and is best known for The War for Kindness and Hope for Cynics, books that examine how compassion can be strengthened and cynicism reduced.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Jamil Zaki built his career around a question that is both scientific and humane: how do people understand, trust, and care for one another? By his own account, family instability early in life left him wary of other people’s intentions, a private tension that later became one of the animating problems of his work. He earned a BA in cognitive neuroscience from Boston University in 2002, completed a PhD in psychology at Columbia University in 2010, and then did postdoctoral research at Harvard before joining Stanford. There he became a professor of psychology and director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, where he and his colleagues study empathy, cooperation, trust, and the broader mechanics of social connection. ((https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/viewCV?facultyId=52916&name=Jamil_Zaki))

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The average person underestimates the average person
-Hope for Cynics
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In other words, empathy is like a muscle, which we can build or leave to atrophy
-In a Divided World, We Need to Choose Empathy
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Some psychologists, myself included, argue that empathy is less a fixed trait, like height, than a learnable skill, like Scrabble
-When Cops Choose Empathy
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Empathy often seems like it's supposed to mean having the right answers, but it can actually mean having better questions
-Youth mental health: Teaching (and learning) empathy
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But flourishing is most often out there, with everyone else
-Why is social connection so hard for Gen Z?
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Empathic people are the ears and shoulders of these communities
-College freshmen turn to empathic people in stressful times
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It turns out that empathy can be shockingly powerful at helping us connect across differences
-Political consensus through empathy
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I think it's our job as people on this planet to not give in that easily and to fight for what we believe in together
-How to Be Less Cynical

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"In this masterpiece, Jamil Zaki weaves together the very latest science with stories that will stay in your heart forever"

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