Popular Science: Can we make ourselves more empathetic?

This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science‘s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice.

Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still has psychologists stumped.

Many thanks to Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science’s Editor in Chief.