Papers by Barry Slaff
Modeling Empathy and Distress in Reaction to News Stories (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent work on empathy prediction has underestimated the complexity of the phenomenon and lacks a shared corpus. authors present a novel annotation methodology which reliably captures empathy assessments by the writer of a statement using multi-item scales. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which captures empathy assessments by the writer of a statement using multi-item scales. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method distinguishes between multiple forms of empathy, empathic concern, and personal distress, as recognized throughout psychology. |