Department
Psychology & Family Studies
Format of Presentation
Poster
Research Category
Social Sciences
Description
Cameron et al.'s purpose for their study was to see whether, given a choice, people would choose to show empathy. Why and why not? My purpose was to know this as well, but to also get a better understanding of the research process as a whole. As a class assignment, I am also doing this replication to aid in the understanding of the replication crisis, which is a worldwide issue of researchers replicating previous experiments and not getting the same results as the original. Our participants are all 18 and older college students on this campus. In this replication, we gave them the choice to be empathetic or not to be. After the trials, they were asked questions about the task given to them, such as: " How hard was the task? How mentally draining was the task? Lastly, they were asked basic demographic questions. All the results I get will help to aid in the understanding of the replication crisis and can be generalized to the W’s campus.
Recommended Citation
North, Meshun S., "Replication of empathy and cognitive effort: The trials and errors of an undergraduate researcher." (2026). Undergraduate Research Conference. 2.
https://athenacommons.muw.edu/urc/2026/social-sciences-poster-session/2
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Replication of empathy and cognitive effort: The trials and errors of an undergraduate researcher.
Cameron et al.'s purpose for their study was to see whether, given a choice, people would choose to show empathy. Why and why not? My purpose was to know this as well, but to also get a better understanding of the research process as a whole. As a class assignment, I am also doing this replication to aid in the understanding of the replication crisis, which is a worldwide issue of researchers replicating previous experiments and not getting the same results as the original. Our participants are all 18 and older college students on this campus. In this replication, we gave them the choice to be empathetic or not to be. After the trials, they were asked questions about the task given to them, such as: " How hard was the task? How mentally draining was the task? Lastly, they were asked basic demographic questions. All the results I get will help to aid in the understanding of the replication crisis and can be generalized to the W’s campus.