OPERATIONAL MEANING Residing People, regardless of their nationality, who have been living in the Philippines.

. Visiting Foreigners who are currently visiting the Philippines. Natural disasters are calamities caused by Earths natural hazards; in this case a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Personal disasters are human-perpetrated events that involved actual or threatened death of oneself or others; in this case sexual assault, ---000 COVER STORY Our experiment is about empathy. Empathy is defined as the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. We would like to find out how much empathy you feel towards a victim of a given situation. SITUATIONS PERSONAL LIVING IN THE COUNTRY Ms. A is a middle-aged woman who is residing in the Philippines with her family. One night, when she and her family were sleeping, three armed men broke into their house. They hogtied every member of her family. The suspects then killed everyone except her and made her watch the whole event. They then proceeded to sexually assault her, leaving her for dead. Upon leaving the house, the suspects left with all her money and valuable possessions. Until now, she is in the hospital trying to recover physically and mentally from the trauma and is having financial problems to pay for her hospital bills.

PERSONAL VISITING IN THE COUNTRY Ms. B is a middle-aged woman who is visiting the Philippines with her family.

One night, when she and her family were sleeping, three armed men broke into the apartment they rented and bound every member of her family. The suspects then killed everyone except her and made her watch the whole event. They then proceeded to sexually assault her and afterwards, left her for dead. Upon leaving the apartment, the suspects left with all her money and valuable possessions. Until now, she is in the hospital trying to recover physically and mentally from the trauma and is having financial problems to pay for her hospital bills.

NATURAL LIVING IN THE COUNTRY Ms. A is a middle-aged woman who is residing in the Philippines with her family. One night, as she was on her way home from buying dinner for her family, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area. She ran frantically towards her house and upon arriving, she found her family members stuck under the debris from the house screaming for help . She tried to save them but then she got stuck by falling debris. The rescue team found her injured and unconscious but sadly, all her family members died. Until now, she is in the hospital trying to recover physically and mentally from the trauma and is having financial problems to pay for her hospital bills.

NATURAL VISITING IN THE COUNTRY Ms. A is a middle-aged woman who is visiting the Philippines with her family. One night, as she was on her way home from buying dinner for her family, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the area. She ran frantically towards the apartment they were renting and upon arriving, she found her family members stuck under the debris from the apartment screaming for help. She tried to save them but then she got stuck by falling debris. The rescue team found her injured and unconscious but sadly, all her family members died.

Until now, she is in the hospital trying to recover physically and mentally from the trauma and is having financial problems to pay for her hospital bills.