The Mindfulness Impact on Empathy: An Examination of Empathy using the Cognitive Theory of Emotion

For my senior thesis, I first proposed a mechanism for how empathy works using the cognitive theory of emotion. From there, I looked at empathy differs from sympathy using this model and what factors contribute to empathetic accuracy. From there, I researched the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, and showed how mindfulness can amplify empathy, and can be shown to do so by examining each step of the empathetic process: perceiving cues, feeling them, and understanding one\u27s own self versus another