APS

30th APS Annual Convention

Culture and Responses to Suffering

Thursday, May 24, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Symposium · Thursday, May 24, 2018 · 4:00 PM – 5:20 PM ET

Subject Area: Social

In this symposium, we highlight recent research on the role of culture in responding to suffering across a variety of levels, including empathic responsivity, explanations of suffering, and experience and expression of sympathy.

Chairs & Discussants

Presentations

  1. Culture Shapes Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Response to Suffering David Atkins, Ayse Uskul, Nick Cooper
  2. Cultural Variation in Sympathy and Responses to SufferingJennifer Goetz, Kaiping Peng
  3. Culture and Construals of SufferingDaniel Sullivan, Roman Palitsky, Isaac F. Young
  4. Cultural Variation in Expressions of SympathyBirgit Koopmann-Holm, Jeanne Tsai