This document includes two parts. The first part is theoretical and focuses on the urgent need to engage young people in history museums and be inclusive of their perspectives on our cultural landscape. The theory discusses which categories of visitors comprise the youth visitor…
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While many opine the criticality of leader Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (Goleman et al., 2004; Goleman, 2005; Boyatzis et al. 2011; Boyatzis et al. 2017; Hess & Bacigalupo, 2013; Galen, 2012), this research identified empathy as the sine qua non for leader EQ. Elders serve as…
It has long been common practice in the Secondary English classroom to use literature as a chance to teach students to empathize with one another. My research draws from the work of Saidiya Hartman on the complicated nature of consuming historical literature about Black sufferin…
Empathy is a pivotal leadership tool in today's global market. The current business world is characterized by rapid globalization which has led to an increase in the growth and prominence of multinational organizations. This trend towards globalization has increased the challeng…
The central questions I'm concerned with in my dissertation are: What is it to understand a person, and what value or significance does it have in our moral life? Instances of such understanding, misunderstanding, or lamentable lack of attempts at understanding permeate our live…
This dissertation documents an arts-based peace education doctoral study that employed narrative métissage as both a pedagogical and a research tool. The research question asks: Does practicing narrative métissage in an intra-conflict society foster empathy and understanding of …
This study examines the relationship between forgiveness, empathy, and self-forgiveness, predicting that the following relationships would be found: the presence of empathy skills would positively correlate with the ability to forgive others, the ability of prison inmates to be …
In healthcare encounters, patients communicate wide-ranging concerns relating to their health and illness experience, treatment or wider psychosocial world. This research draws upon a normative understanding of patient centred approaches which recognise the clinical and psychoth…
My thesis has at its heart an interrogation into the practice I have co-created with Tangled Feet, a physical ensemble who use processes of improvisation and devising, and who make work which includes apertures for audience influence, often outside of traditional theatre spaces.…
Couple therapy research identifies partner empathy as a core process for positive outcomes. The Exeter Model of couple therapy (EMCT) for depression builds on both behavioural and empathic approaches in couple therapy to reduce unhelpful couple interactions and promote mutual un…
Communication between the patient and healthcare professional is pivotal in enabling effective self-care management to occur (Street et al., 2009) which in turn leads to improved health outcomes (Kravitz et al., 1993). However, there is little published data exploring the most e…
This dissertation illustrates how a moral burden of history manifests itself in social relationships, cultural processes, and material products. Specifically, it argues that what appears to many as a superficial, commercially motivated revival of Jewishness in Poland is also a s…
Social interaction, including social behavior and associated outcomes, consists of a continuous exchange and interpretation of information between social actors. According to attribution theory, subjective causal analysis of the causes of important social events determines, at l…
The present study attempted to determine the relationship between empathy, intelligence, and PTSD in US Army soldiers returning from deployment in Iraq. Linear regression was used to test the hypotheses that: soldiers with higher levels of empathy would experience greater arousa…
The concept of Jesus as a virtue ethicist is not a new one. Most philosophical thinkers in the ancient world were virtue theorist in one way or another, even the Buddha and Confucius were not inconsistent with the belief that character was central to ethos (or ethikos ). Among t…
Purpose: Arts education has been included in the Cypriot school curriculum. The importance of arts education is therefore a major curricular objective. It is used as one of the most widespread methods of experiential learning. The purpose of this research was to investigate the …
As information and communications technologies continue to evolve, a growing number of global corporations can have their employees work simultaneously around the globe from multiple locations. There have been numerous historical studies on empathy and empathetic leaders, but th…
Sensory-processing Sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait that is characterized by a strong emotional response (Aron & Aron, 1997). The strong emotional response among high-SPS individuals raises the question of how it might affect high-SPS individuals’ empathy response. The p…
Courses in ethnic studies challenge power dynamics in the classroom, create the conditions for multiple experiences and perspectives to be present, and examine the history and legacy of racism and how it operates. Additionally, ethnic studies courses may foster empathy across al…