Posts Tagged ‘Katharine N. Thakkar’
">
This example illustrates a perspective-taking task. Panel A: Back-facing condition—no perspective transformation is required. Panel B: Front-facing condition—requires imagined self-other transformation. People who are able to imagine themselves in the positions of another person also appear to feel more empathy.
VANDERBILT (US)—Having empathy for others may be directly related to how easily one is able to imagine—literally—stepping into someone else’s shoes, say researchers at Vanderbilt University. Continue…
