“Addressing the Empathy Deficit: Beliefs About the Malleability of Empathy Predict Effortful Responses When Empathy Is Challenging”

“Addressing the Empathy Deficit: Beliefs About the Malleability of Empathy Predict Effortful Responses When Empathy Is Challenging”

Empathetic Effort is one’s willingness to put in effort and time into feeling empathy and argue people’s empathy experience by how much effort they exert. Karina Schumann explains how mindset can define how one feels empathy towards another in certain situations. For someone with a fixed mindset, it is going to be difficult for them to experience empathy in situations. Since people with fixed mindset have difficulty grasping the concept of an experience that happened to someone else, people with growth mindset are able expand empathetic effort. For both in experiences where it is hard to feel empathy towards someone, people with a growth mindset will find ways to feel empathy rather than someone with a fixed mindset that has a black and white idea that if they haven’t personally experienced it, they can’t feel empathy. Jamison in a way showed Empathetic Effort. Jamison went out of the way to experience ad learn about people who suffered from the disease. Though she took time and pit in the effort to ask the patients how they felt and learned about the experiences and emotions she lacked feeling empathy and was more sympathetic towards them. By definition some could say Jamison did experience Empathetic effort due to how much time and effort she out into learning about these people and what pain and suffering they experience. Yet when she began to feel in a way that they did her tone of voice turned angry and she didn’t feel any sort of way for these patients expressing that they were delusional.

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