Aalto Wellbeing Week 2023 Keynote Katri Saarikivi "Empathy - a key to the heart of interaction"
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Humans are a hyper-social species, equipped with astounding capabilities of connecting to, and collaborating with other people.
- Why do we need so much contact to others, and what if we don’t get it?
- What kind of interaction with others creates collective intelligence and wellbeing, and what does not?
- What is empathy and how could we develop it?
- Why does online collaboration not feel the same as face-to-face?
This talk will offer you answers to these questions through a deep dive into the neuroscience of empathy and collaboration. We will examine what mechanisms makes us social beings, and how to best use these capabilities in the diverse interaction settings of the digitalised world.
Aalto Wellbeing Week 2023 Keynote speaker Katri Saarikivi PhD (psych) is a psychologist and a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Turku. Her research topics include attention and executive functions, empathy and psychophysiological mechanisms of collaboration.
Alongside research, she is a science communicator, enthusiastic about popularizing science, and especially about opening the scientific method to people outside academia.
The language of the keynote speech is Finnish and the presentation slides are in English, and questions can be asked in Finnish and English.
The keynote speech is recorded and can be found at the end of the wellbeing week in Workday Learning.