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"I think the reason fiction but not non-fiction has the effect of improving empathy is because fiction is primarily about selves interacting with other selves in the social world," said Oatley.
Sandra, who teaches a workshop at Kaiser Permanente on the "four-habits model," a method for improving empathy with patients, told me she was surprised that the doctor never introduced himself.
The department is also working actively on improving empathy in robots, and recently tested whether a simulated, on-screen robot was more empathy-inducing than a real one.
Imagination will be useful in putting oneself in the shoes of another person and indirectly improving empathy.
Cultural or educational differences between the East and the West could be assumed to be the reason for these conflicting results, and the positive factors for improving empathy needed to be determined.
The following preliminary recommendations are also made with respect to guiding intervention development to enhance feasibility and acceptability: Some elements of psychosocial interventions such as improving empathy of service providers towards service users and providing psychoeducation may be universal.
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