The Empathy Effect
Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences
$32.00
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2026
Summary
The breakdown of empathy is a growing conversation topic these days, especially with political rhetoric filled with hatred and threats of violence, growing income inequality, and a general unease about how to get along amidst escalating tensions around the world. Enter Dr. Helen Riess of Harvard Medical School. Nicknamed “the Empathy Doc” by colleagues as well as in the media, Dr. Riess’s work has attracted the attention of such notables as bestselling authors Paul Ekman and Atul Gawande, as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781649631244 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1649631243 |
| Author: | Helen Riess, Helen Riess with Liz Neporent, Liz Neporent |
| Publisher: | Sounds True Inc |
| Imprint: | Sounds True Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm x 18mm |
About The Author
Helen Riess
Helen Riess, MD, is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Empathy and Relational Science Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, HuffPost, WRUR, JAMA, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and elsewhere. Her popular TEDx Talk, “The Power of Empathy,” has over 819,000 viewers across all social media platforms. Dr. Riess is in constant demand as a speaker.
Liz Neporent is an award-winning health and medical journalist. She has written sixteen health-related books including the bestsellers The Winner’s Brain, Fitness for Dummies, and Weight Training for Dummies. Neporent was a senior health reporter and director of health and medical social media for ABC News National for more than five years. She is currently a managing editor at Medscape/WebMD.
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