Did you know there were different types of empathy? And it seems many different variables might impact out capacity for empathy. This week Paola and Taylor take a look at a study that wanted to find out how social anxiety might influence both cognitive and affective empathy, and if gender might affect these interactions. Can having social anxiety anxiety make us gals more empathetic? And don't forget to tune in next week when we'll be joined by study author, Samantha Berg for her take on the findings!
The 2020 study that we chat about today is called, "Higher Social Anxiety Severity Predicts Better Cognitive Empathy Performance in Women But Not Men" by Samantha K. Berg, Jeffrey S. Bedwell, and Robert D. Dvorak. You can find the study here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120965496
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