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Psychology & Family Studies

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Poster

Research Category

Social Sciences

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This study is a replication of Cameron et al. (2019, Study 1) and looks at how hard people think it is to feel empathy. The original study found that people sometimes avoid empathy because it feels mentally tiring. We want to see if empathy is actually hard or if people just think it is. Participants will choose between two types of tasks. In the empathy task, they will focus on a person and describe how that person might feel, sometimes with details like age and gender. In the non-empathy task, they will describe more factual details about the person. After each task, participants will rate how hard and mentally draining it felt. We will also collect basic demographic information. This study will help us understand empathy better and see if the original findings hold true with college students at The W. It will also add to conversations about how reliable psychology research is.

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Replicating Empathy Patterns: Replication of Cameron et. al. 2019 Study

This study is a replication of Cameron et al. (2019, Study 1) and looks at how hard people think it is to feel empathy. The original study found that people sometimes avoid empathy because it feels mentally tiring. We want to see if empathy is actually hard or if people just think it is. Participants will choose between two types of tasks. In the empathy task, they will focus on a person and describe how that person might feel, sometimes with details like age and gender. In the non-empathy task, they will describe more factual details about the person. After each task, participants will rate how hard and mentally draining it felt. We will also collect basic demographic information. This study will help us understand empathy better and see if the original findings hold true with college students at The W. It will also add to conversations about how reliable psychology research is.