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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Post Secondary Students Use of Social Media and Relationship to Cognitive and Affective Empathy

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Social

  • Dominica Pec
    University of Guelph-Humber

Abstract

50 participants at University of Guelph-Humber completed a questionnaire about social media dependence, use, cognitive empathy, and affective empathy. The results of the study showed total time spent on Instagram by undergraduates and how this positively impacts their competence to experience emotions of others, and emotional understanding of other people.

Social Cognition