Abstract:Over the last two decades, research has devoted increasing attention to the examination of empathy. Yet research examining empathic accuracy, defined as how well we judge the emotional intensity felt by another, has grown more modestly. This asymmetry may be due to the complexity of paradigms used to study empathic accuracy, as well as to the fact that the stimuli used so far are dependent upon linguistic and cultural factors. To circumvent these issues, here we present a novel paradigm that examines the abili… Show more
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