Praise from Peers Promotes Empathetic Behavior

• In Event: Empathy in Politics

Brief Overview

Empathy can be a powerful tool for shaping and changing policy preferences, yet engaging in it is costly. We investigate those costs are and propose and test an intervention based on peer-praise designed to lower the barriers to empathy.

Authors

• Jonathan Renshon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Adeline Lo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Lotem Bassan-Nygate, University of Wisconsin-Madison