HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025160 declined in quality. People feel less trusting of others than in previous decades, face-to-face communication is less frequent, and people's social networks have become more fragmented, producing smaller social clusters rather than expansive, civic community groups. Empathy with other humans, considering others' wants, feelings, needs, and motivations (the essence of what makes us human), has diminished considerably. Rises in income inequality and political polarization also mean that our diversity of social experiences—encountering people unlike 'us' —is diminishing as well, enabling little consideration of humans dissimilar to ourselves. "The Power of Human represents a call to action. This book details the psychological cost of losing our humanity and elucidates scientifically supported strategies to counteract this trend, many of which are already underway. Although scholars have bemoaned declines in social interaction, their concerns often erroneously center on people's deteriorating social skills, communication abilities, and intelligence (for which evidence is decidedly mixed). Meanwhile, the real costs of this decline on moral behavior, employee productivity, mobilizing social movements, and finding meaning in life have gone overlooked. This book elucidates how we often overlook how psychologically powerful humans are, and provides strategies to rejuvenate efforts to recognize others' humanity. "The Power of Human is unique in providing solutions to this problem that will help businesses retain customers and employees, help charities raise more money, help people experience greater significance from simple everyday activities, help technologists design better robots, help reduce conflict between different political and religious sects, and increase happiness in relationships with friends and spouses." ADAM WAYTZ is an associate professor of management and organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwes