Messenger-based assessment of empathic accuracy in couples' smartphone communication.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How accurate are empathic judgments of couples in smartphone messenger communication? Are judgments influenced by the level of experience with messengers and communication frequency?.

Objectives

The current preregistered study introduced a novel ecological assessment method and a privacy by design approach to study couples' empathic accuracy in a messenger context.

Methods

Data from N = 102 participants (51 couples) was used to investigate how accurate judgments of partners' affect map their partners' actual affect.

Results

Our results demonstrate tracking accuracy and assumed similarity bias in reciprocal empathic judgments of affective valence and arousal during social messenger texting. A small moderation effect for experience with text messengers

SUBMITTER: Steinebach P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11844058 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature