Eyes on you: Ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy?

ABSTRACT: The eye region is thought to play an important role in the ability to accurately infer others' feelings, or empathic accuracy (EA), which is an important skill for social interaction. However, most past studies used static pictures, including only visual information, and knowledge about the contribution of the eye region to EA when visual information is presented together with verbal content is lacking. We therefore examined whether eye gazing contributes to EA during videos of emotional autobiographical stories including both visual and verbal content. One hundred seven perceivers watched videos of targets talking about positive and negative life events and continuously rated the targets' feelings during the videos. Simultaneously, perceivers' eyes were tracked. After each video, perceive

SUBMITTER: Wever MCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796408 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature