Experimenting with Empathy

Emile Bruneau, a postdoc in the Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, has long been interested in group identity. What informs our opinion of others?" he asks. "And how does experience change the way people think about others' actions and thoughts?" Recently Bruneau's research has led him to focus on empathy.

"You could think of empathy as stepping into someone else's shoes and seeing through their perspective," he says, "but an equally valid definition of empathy might be stepping in their shoes and thinking from your own perspective."

Learn more about Bruneau's empathy research and experiments in the video below, which was produced by students in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

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