本研究以 2*2 網路實驗法的方式試圖瞭解新聞類型與戲劇化程度，對閱聽人的同理心激起有無差異。在檢定 517 個回收的政治大學學生樣本後，主要的發現為被新聞激起的同理心情緒與利社會行為動機有高度正相關；資訊型的災情報導和表達型的災民新聞在能激起閱聽人的同理心上有顯著差異，且是資訊型災情報導較能激起同理心情緒；不同戲劇化程度所激起的同理心情緒有顯著差異，戲劇化程度較高的新聞，較能激起閱聽人的同理心。

This study investigated the relation between different types and dramatized degree of disaster reporting and audience empathy aroused through online experiments. The pilot sample was composed of 517 students of National Cheng Chi University. The results of the study indicated that empathy emotions and prosocial motivations are highly positive correlated; information type of disaster reporting can arouse significantly more audience empathy than expressing type of disaster reporting; various degrees of dramatic have significant differences in arousing empathy emotions, a higher degree of dramatic disaster reporting is more likely to arouse audience's empathy.