Empathic Accuracy: Empirical Overview and Clinical Applications

Hinnekens, Céline; Ickes, William; Berlamont, Liesbet; Verhofstadt, Lesley

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51890-5_8

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“…Further, we did not assess the participants’ sexual orientations in Study 1, nor did we assess race/ethnicity and disability in Studies 1 and 2. Future researchers might be advised to examine these characteristics, although a recent review showed inconsistent associations of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity with empathic accuracy (Hinnekens et al, 2021). A final limitation of Study 1 is the comparatively lower interrater reliability for empathic accuracy, whereas the interrater reliability in Study 2 is high, due to the methodological improvements we introduced.…”

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Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples

Berlamont¹,

Sels²,

Ickes³

et al. 2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The current research examined how intimate partners’ affect is related, on a moment-to-moment basis, to their level of empathic accuracy during conflict interactions. To this end, we analyzed data from two laboratory-based studies (n = 155 and n = 172 couples) in which couples participated in a conflict interaction task, followed immediately by a video-review task during which they reported on their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner at different moments in the interaction. We found that the partners’ affective similarity − for both positive (Study 1 & 2) and negative affect (Study 2) − was related to greater perceiver empathic accuracy for both the partner’s feelings (Studies 1 & 2) and the partner’s thoughts (Study 2). The data from Study 2 also revealed a complementary effect: lower levels of empathic accuracy for feelings at moments of affective dissimilarity between the partners (i.e., when a perceiver was feeling positive while his/her partner was feeling negative).

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confidence: 99%

Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples

Berlamont¹,

Sels²,

Ickes³

et al. 2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…However, relationship well-being was not assessed, nor were couples in a more established relationship included. It is important to study both of these missing elements because (1) poor relationship well-being might not always lead to the dissolution of a relationship and ( 2) previous research has demonstrated that some relationship processes are different in dating couples versus more established couples (e.g., Hinnekens et al, 2021).…”

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“…Further, we did not assess the participants' sexual orientation in Study 1, nor did we assess race/ethnicity and disability in Study 1 and 2. Although a recent review showed inconsistent associations between empathic accuracy and sexual orientation and race/ethnicity (Hinnekens et al, 2023), it is important to explicitly rule out the possibility that these characteristics might change the observed associations.…”

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Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being

Berlamont,

Ceulemans,

Carlier

et al. 2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Are intimate partners similar in how accurately they infer each other’s feelings and thoughts, and if so, does this similarity predict their relationship well-being? To answer this question, we analyzed data from two laboratory-based studies ( n = 155 and n = 172 couples) in which couples participated in a conflict interaction task and afterwards reported on their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner. Relationship well-being was measured on both a global (i.e., relationship satisfaction) and a situational level (i.e., post-interaction closeness and satisfaction with the outcome of the interaction). We found that intimate partners were more similar in their empathic accuracy than randomly-paired individuals. This similarity predicted the extent to which partners reported that the conflict interaction had led to a positive outcome for their relationship, but was not associated with partners’ global relationship satisfaction or their post-interaction closeness.

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“…During social interactions, people try to understand others by making inferences about what the other is thinking or feeling and adjusting their affective and behavioral responses (Hall et al, 2016). The ability to accurately understand others' mental states during interactions is referred to as empathic accuracy (EA; for an overview of the concept, see Hinnekens et al, 2021). Empathy, which encompasses empathic accuracy, is part of social exchanges between children as well as adults.…”

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Empathic Accuracy across Childhood and in Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review

Mauroy,

Galdiolo,

Meillerais

et al. 2024

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Empathic accuracy is an ability to precisely understand someone else’s current thoughts and feelings during an interaction. EA has mostly been studied in adult populations, although intra-individual differences in EA could be explained by age and developmental changes during childhood. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize the existing literature on empathic accuracy (EA) in childhood and during parent-child interactions. Following PRISMA norms, five electronic databases were searched and yielded 22 references. Most studies were conducted in samples of adolescents. Besides, the operationalization of EA varied across studies. Few results support age variations in EA during childhood. Children’s and parents’ EA is linked to parental and children’s behaviors during interactions. Parents and children also hold beliefs that girls and mothers should have higher empathy than boys and fathers. Finally, this systematic review highlighted a lack of transparent methodologies and specific assessment of EA in children in the current literature.

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Empathic Accuracy: Empirical Overview and Clinical Applications

Cited by 4 publications

References 66 publications

Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples

Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples

Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being

Empathic Accuracy across Childhood and in Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review

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