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measured four aspects of “interpersonal sensitivity”: Empathic concern, or sympathy, over the misfortunes of others; perspective taking, an intellectual capacity to imagine other people’s points of view; fantasy or people’s tendency to identify imaginatively with fictional characters in books or movies; and personal distress, which refers to the anguish one feels during others’ misfortunes. (For example, “When I see someone who badly needs help in an emergency, I go to pieces.”)

Empathic concern

Empathic concern

How can you avoid plagiarism? To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you quote from someone's actual spoken or written words use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories in an assignment or essay make use of pieces of information, such as statistics, graphs, drawings, that are not common knowledge paraphrase another person's spoken or written words How can you avoid unintentional plagiarism? Use quotation marks around everything that comes directly from a text or article Try to summarise ideas and arguments in your own words - don't just rearrange a few words here and there Check that you have correctly paraphrased and acknowledged the original ideas Check your summary against the original text

Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer to the person with whom I am communicating—or will it push me further away?"

Is what I am doing (or about to do) going to connect to the student's self-interest?

Who's doing the work?"