system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Are there evidence based ways to increase empathy for others? What does the literature say on this?

Are there evidence based ways to increase empathy for others? What does the literature say on this?
gpt
You could rather easily do what most people here are going to do and ask Dr. Google. 

Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) comes to mind. It was introduced to me as a way to work with people diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, but was originally developed for use with borderline-presenting patients. The idea behind this approach is that increasing awareness of one’s own mental states helps to create understanding of others’ mental states.