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  • Social Psychology
  • Interpersonal Relationships

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  • Empathy is linked to positive social and emotional outcomes.
  • Existing interventions focus on empathy skills, not motivation.
  • Empathy involves both ability and the motivation to engage with others' feelings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if interventions targeting empathy motivation can increase empathy.
  • To explore the impact of malleable mindsets and social norms on empathy.
  • To assess real-world outcomes of motivation-based empathy interventions.

Main Methods:

  • Two hundred ninety-two college students were randomly assigned to mindset, social norms, combined, or control conditions.
  • Interventions focused on shifting beliefs about empathy's malleability and social expectations.
  • Empathic accuracy and social outcomes were measured after eight weeks.

Main Results:

  • Intervention groups showed stronger beliefs in empathy's malleability.
  • Participants in intervention conditions demonstrated improved empathic accuracy for positive emotions.
  • Students in intervention groups reported making more friends post-intervention.

Conclusions:

  • Motivation-based empathy interventions can foster positive, real-world impacts.
  • Shifting mindsets and social norms is a viable strategy for enhancing empathy.
  • Intervention effects may be limited to specific contexts, such as positive emotions and friendship formation.