Content tagged "empathy"
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Posted by Diego Arenas S.M., Science Writing, 2019
Topics: empathyMinding the Empathy Gap: How Insights into Brains and Behaviors are Placating Polarization
Touching on neuroscience and social psychology, this thesis addresses how we come to define empathy, why and when we fail to express it, and how we can hope to recoup it.
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Posted by Ainsley Sutherland S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: computing, culture, emotion, empathy, empathy machine, virtual realityStaged Empathy: Empathy and Visual Perception in Virtual Reality Systems
Ainsley Sutherland’s thesis proposes “staged empathy” as a new analytical framework to examine how virtual reality work provokes empathic feeling.