APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

The Complex Relationship between Curiosity and Empathy

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Victoria Lagrange
    IUPUI
  • Jasmine Litton
    Indiana University
  • Alison Jane Martingano
    The National Institutes of Health
  • Sara Konrath
    Indiana University

Abstract

We investigated the relationship between curiosity and empathy towards politically similar and dissimilar others. Our results indicate that the relationship between curiosity and empathy is complex and multidirectional. Curiosity is positively related to cognitive empathy, but is negatively or unrelated to emotional empathy.

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