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Reinforcing Empathy through Formalized Instruction
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This project is meant to measure and assess empathy through the Empathy Assessment Index (EAI) and Social Empathy Index (SEI) instruments. Researchers believe that empathy is an involuntary but dynamic aspect of people's affective and cognitive responses to emotional stimuli. This project used the EAI and SEI instruments to see whether a course taught at Arizona State University \u2014 PAF 300 \u2014increased empathy and its seven components within students. The results suggest that different modular interventions were effective in increasing four of the seven empathic components \u2014 affective response, perspective-taking, contextual understanding of systemic barriers, and macro self-other awareness/ perspective-taking \u2014 but that it was detrimental to two components, self-other awareness and affective mentalizing. Future studies are necessary to understand how aspects of a course curriculum can target and increase the seven components in individuals, as well as how these components relate to one another within the greater concept of empathy. Still, this research is important in the greater scheme of empathy as it seeks to understand and expand individuals' empathic levels in an increasingly bleak and desolate political climate.
Date Created
2018-05
Contributors
- Pirkl, Audrie Madison (Author)
- Johnston, Erik W., 1977- (Thesis director)
- Minrichs, Margaret (Committee member)
- W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
- School of Public Affairs (Contributor)
- Department of Management and Entrepreneurship (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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75 pages
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2017-2018
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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48108
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- 2018-04-21 12:21:56
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 2 years 8 months ago
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