The Protégé Effect in Action: Can Teaching Promote Empathy and Compassion for Prisoners?

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ac.comp.abstractThere are almost 2 million people held within the criminal justice system in the United States and so thinking about how we are treating and interacting with this population is very important (Wagner et al., 2023). Empathy is a big part of this and is known as being the experience of feeling what you think others are feeling while (Batson 2009). The overall purpose of this study was to take a deeper look into empathy and compassion, and specifically the methods of increasing someone’s empathy and compassion towards people who have gone to prison. It was hypothesized that if someone taught a small lesson about empathy and compassion they would have higher levels of empathy and compassion, higher levels of negative emotions, and would be more willing to donate their time. The results of the study were not in line with these predictions, finding that there was no statistical difference between these two groups for any of the different measures.
ac.comp.awardPsychology, 2024en_US
ac.comp.firstreaderEckstein, Lydia E.
ac.comp.languageEnglish
ac.comp.permissionformPublicen_US
ac.comp.secondreadersNormile, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorDolan, Ashleighen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychology
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T13:02:42Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T13:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-03
dc.description.majorPsychology
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10456/57691
dc.subjectProtege Effect
dc.subjectPerspective-taking
dc.subjectCognitive Dissonance
dc.subjectEmpathy
dc.subjectCompassion
dc.titleThe Protégé Effect in Action: Can Teaching Promote Empathy and Compassion for Prisoners?
dc.typeSenior Project Paper
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