Seeing bad does good: Relational benefits of accuracy regarding partners’ negative moods
| Autor: | Maryhope Howland, Gal Lazarus, Eshkol Rafaeli, Reuma Gadassi, Ayelet Boussi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Diary studies 050105 experimental psychology Empathic accuracy Feeling Negative relationship 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Asset (economics) Psychology Association (psychology) Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Motivation and Emotion. 41:353-369 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6644 0146-7239 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11031-017-9614-x |
| Popis: | When would greater empathic accuracy (EA) be an asset and when would it not? In two studies of romantic couples (both employing daily diaries, the second also involving a lab-based video-recall paradigm), we explored the associations between EA (at the day-level, person-level, and in the lab) and an important relationship outcome: negative relationship feelings. Our results show that accuracy is tied more strongly to this relational outcome when negative (vs. positive) moods are the target of empathic judgments. The association between accuracy and (better) feelings was true for both perceivers and targets. Importantly, these associations emerged only in diary-based accuracy scores, and not in the lab-based ones. These results further support the importance of everyday empathic accuracy. They also highlight the need to consider such accuracy as multi-faceted, and in particular, to recognize the differential role of attending to our partners’ negative versus positive moods in daily life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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