"According to the researchers, empathy burnout takes shape when 'a person is regularly expending much of their energy – emotional, physical, mental – to care for others to the point that they themselves feel exhausted.'"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/06/17/social-media-misinformation-is-making-americans-less-emphatic/?sh=35aa1383525b

"Over the course of almost an hour, we talked about how covering Covid can be particularly taxing, the importance of empathy, and the perplexing minds of octopuses (and yes, according to Yong’s book, it is octopuses or octopodes, not octopi)."

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/06/ed-yong-an-immense-world-animals-catfish-sea-turtles-ants-corgis-covid/

"Of course, the audience has the right to judge, but the actor has to come from a place where the character is operating out of the need and they are doing what they can."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dub-fRHlomY

"With systems such as LaMDA we see their potential perils and the urgent need to design systems in ways that don’t abuse our empathy or trust."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/14/human-like-programs-abuse-our-empathy-even-google-engineers-arent-immune

"A new study by University of New Mexico (UNM) researchers found that cannabis consumers showed more empathy, pro-social behaviors, and moral decision-making than non-consumers, according to a Daily Lobo report."

https://www.ganjapreneur.com/study-cannabis-consumers-more-empathetic-moral-and-pro-social-than-non-consumers/