Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2019
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| author | Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author2 | Thomas Levenson. |
| author_facet | Thomas Levenson. Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author_sort | Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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| description | Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2019 |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1237812021-07-17T02:05:09Z Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization How insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thomas Levenson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Comparative Media Studies. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing Comparative Media Studies. Graduate Program in Science Writing. 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. 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. by Diego Arenas. S.M. in Science Writing S.M.inScienceWriting Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing 2020-02-10T22:51:31Z 2020-02-10T22:51:31Z 2019 2019 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123781 1138990549 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 16 pages ; application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Comparative Media Studies. Graduate Program in Science Writing. Arenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title | Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title_full | Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title_fullStr | Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title_short | Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| title_sort | minding the empathy gap how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization |
| topic | Comparative Media Studies. Graduate Program in Science Writing. |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123781 |
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