Empathy

Not many kids in school want to read anymore, this is mainly because the things they are being made to read in school are not of topics they care about or they just aren’t interested in the genre. Most kids until they reach the age of 17 aren’t interested in nonfiction and similar genres. They…

In this article, Boag and Wilson (2104) discuss the results of a study they completed which measured the degree of empathetic and prejudicial views of criminology students toward convicted prisoners, notably sex offenders and murderers. Study results showed that individuals who engaged with inmate study participants showed an increase in empathy towards the offenders and…

In Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Hochschild travels to Louisiana to make sense of American conservatives’ beliefs. One of the techniques that Hochschild utilizes is literary symbols. Hochschild’s use of the empathy wall and deep story engage me in the ongoing conversation about the American political divide….

For our second topic, we decided on Self- Other Distinction (SOD), which is said to be an important part of the construct of empathy (Cuff, Brown, Taylor, & Howat, 2016; de Vignemont & Singer, 2006; Decety & Lamm, 2006; Gerdes, Segal, & Lietz, 2010; Lamm, Bukowski, & Silani, 2016) and which we define as “the…

Reading this book was different than other books I’ve read in the past. Some of the strengths I see in this book are the way the author illustrates his examples through stories. The author, Simon Sinek, starts with a story of Captain Mike Drowley, or Johnny Bravo, that catches your attention takes you through Johnny’s…