Breithaupt is alarmed at the apparent new virus of selective empathy and how it's deepening divisions. ... What we can do when we do empathy, proposes Fritz, is help ourselves.

In “The Narrative Brain,” Fritz Breithaupt attempts to deconstruct these processes and reveal how they work, going between high abstraction and specific cases.

FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.

Nonfiction. The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt. Yale University Press, 2025 ($35) Humans are storytelling ­animals. We narrate our lives as soon as we can speak ...

“The beauty of this approach,” says Fritz Breithaupt, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University Bloomington and a lead author of the study, “is that it shows a transition of the original story to ...

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FRITZ BREITHAUPT: Absolutely. That's exactly how I grew up. ROSIN: This is Fritz Breithaupt, a professor at the University of Indiana who wrote a book on empathy.

Breithaupt is quick to note that we need abstractions. “Truth,” “love” and “kindness” don’t refer to physical entities, but that doesn’t diminish their importance. In fact, every word is to some ...

The latest episode of NPR's Podcast Invisibilia examines the history of empathy in American culture. In this era of political polarization, empathy has fallen out of fashion.

The latest episode of NPR's Podcast Invisibilia examines the history of empathy in American culture. In this era of political polarization, empathy has fallen out of fashion.