Jamil Zaki

I'm a professor of psychology at Stanford University, where I direct the Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory. For the last fifteen years, I've been obsessed with a few questions: how do people connect with each other, how do those connections help us, and can we learn to connect better? I've spent my career in the wonderful world of empathy science, but also have a past life as a frustrated novelist. Together, this has led me towards a passion for not only doing research, but communicating ideas about empathy, kindness, and generosity as widely as I can.