APS
30th APS Annual Convention
Culture and Responses to Suffering
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
- Jennifer GoetzChair
Centre College
Presentations
- Culture Shapes Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Response to Suffering David Atkins, Ayse Uskul, Nick Cooper
- Cultural Variation in Sympathy and Responses to SufferingJennifer Goetz, Kaiping Peng
- Culture and Construals of SufferingDaniel Sullivan, Roman Palitsky, Isaac F. Young
- Cultural Variation in Expressions of SympathyBirgit Koopmann-Holm, Jeanne Tsai