Empathy & Compassion

Empathy Experiment Videos – The Beginning

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 It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we first launched the Empathy Experiment, a social experiment among Capital University students and partner organizations from the Central Ohio community centered on a single issue to answer a basic question: Can empathy be taught? And if so, what are the effects?

 

If you followed last year’s experiment and tracked our students’ experiences on this blog…

 

http://empathy.capital.edu

 

 

Beginning in January 2011, six Capital students will begin exploring a single social issue (to be announced) by immersing themselves in different experiences designed by community partners.

http://www.capital.edu/capitalnews.aspx?id=12762

 

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