{"id":525,"date":"2015-09-14T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.wordpress.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2019-09-25T19:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T19:03:22","slug":"the-other-guys-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicaeblack.org\/everythingelse\/2015\/09\/14\/the-other-guys-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"the “other guy’s” point of view"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the most common self-report measures of empathy is the Interpersonal Reactivity Index<\/a> (Davis, 1980). \u00a0Sample item: “I sometimes find it difficult to see things from the “other guy’s” point of view.” \u00a0Actually, this particular item is part of the Perspective-taking subscale. \u00a0There is also an Empathic Concern subscale, and two others that are used less frequently. \u00a0I’ve used Davis’s scale many times (my academic reearcher side<\/a>). \u00a0I’d kind of like to administer it now, to thousands of people, along with a few simple questions assessing their take on the “migrant” (most commonly used in US news<\/a>) or “refugee” (European news<\/a> but also CNN here<\/a>) crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve been living with your head in a bubble, just click on the links above. (or NPR piece<\/a>)  There are over 4 million<\/em><\/strong> registered<\/span> Syrian refugees (source<\/a>).  That’s FOUR MILLION.<\/strong>  Registered.  That’s not all.  7000 people crossed into a Hungarian border town overnight<\/em><\/strong> (in Guardian piece linked above).  Thirty-four people (15 children) died in Aegean Sea yesterday, when their boat capsized.  I believe at this point the term refugee<\/em> is warranted.  How many people would put their families in danger because they wanted to–voluntarily–migrate?  <\/em>Show of hands?<\/p>\n\n\n