Empathy: A physiological substrate.
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 63 (2) , 234-246
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.63.2.234
Abstract
Studied the relation between empathy (defined as the ability to perceive accurately how another person is feeling) and physiology in 31 Ss. Ss viewed 15-min marital interactions and used a rating dial to indicate continuously how they thought a designated spouse was feeling. Rating accuracy was determined by comparing Ss' ratings with identical self-ratings obtained previously from the target spouse. Physiological linkage between S and target was determined using bivariate time-series analyses applied to 5 autonomic and somatic measures obtained from the S during the rating task and from the target spouse during the original conversation. Accuracy of rating negative emotion was greatest when S and target evidenced high levels of physiological linkage across time. Accuracy of detecting positive emotion was related to a state of low cardiovascular arousal in the S, but not to physiological linkage between S and target. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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