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Minding the empathy gap : how insights into brains and behaviors are placating polarization / 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 / 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

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123781
Date January 2019
CreatorsArenas, Diego,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ContributorsThomas 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
PublisherMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format16 pages ;, application/pdf
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