Modeling empathy as synchrony in clinician and patient vocally encoded emotional arousal: A failure to replicate.

ABSTRACT: Empathy is a well-defined active ingredient in clinical encounters. To measure empathy, the current gold standard is behavioral coding (i.e., trained coders attribute overall ratings of empathy to clinician behaviors within an encounter), which is labor intensive and subject to important reliability challenges. Recently, an alternative measurement has been proposed: capturing empathy as synchrony in vocally encoded arousal, which can be measured as the mean fundamental frequency of the voice (mean F0). This method has received preliminary support by one study (Imel, Barco, et al., 2014). We aimed to replicate this study by using 2 large samples of clinical interactions (alcohol brief motivational interventions with young adults, N = 208; general practice consultations, N = 204). Audio file

SUBMITTER: Gaume J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7286050 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature