Individual differences in emotion prediction and implications for social success.

ABSTRACT: The social world requires people to predict others' thoughts, feelings, and actions. People who successfully predict others' emotions experience significant social advantages. What makes a person good at predicting emotions? To predict others' future emotional states, a person must know how one emotion transitions to the next. People learn how emotions transition from at least two sources: (a) internal information, or one's own emotion experiences, and (b) external information, such as the social cues detected in a person's face. Across five studies collected between 2018 and 2020, we find evidence that both sources of information are related to accurate emotion prediction: individuals with atypical personal emotion transitions, difficulty understanding their own emotional ex

SUBMITTER: Barrick EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11883643 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature