Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization
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1138990549-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Advisor(s)
Thomas Levenson.
Alternative Title
How insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The One America Movement is a nonprofit, bridge-building organization founded after the 2016 presidential election. The organization is committed to combating toxic polarization all over the country. On January 27, 2019, One America organized a meeting in South Jordan, Utah in which Latter-day Saints and Jews came together to foster empathy for the other faith. This thesis reports on the on the interfaith event and explores the science behind it and other conflict resolution strategies. 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.
Description
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Comparative Media Studies.
Graduate Program in Science Writing.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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