The meaning in empathy: Distinguishing conceptual encoding from facial mimicry, trait empathy, and attention to emotion
| Autor: | Stephanie D. Preston, Alicia J. Hofelich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Individuality Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Empathy behavioral disciplines and activities Simulation theory of empathy Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Perception Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Attention media_common Psychological Tests Facial expression Electromyography Social perception Cognition Facial Expression Social Perception Face Mimicry Female Psychology Photic Stimulation psychological phenomena and processes Stroop effect Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition & Emotion. 26:119-128 |
| ISSN: | 1464-0600 0269-9931 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02699931.2011.559192 |
| Popis: | In order to truly empathise with another, we need to recognise and understand how they feel. Perception-action models of empathy predict that attending to another's emotion will spontaneously activate the observer's own conceptual knowledge for the state, but it is unclear how this activation is related to facial mimicry, trait empathy, or attention to emotion more generally. In the current study, participants did spontaneously encode background facial expressions at a conceptual level even though they were irrelevant to the task (the Emostroop effect; Preston & Stansfield, 2008), but this encoding was not associated with mimicry of the faces, trait empathy, the ability to resolve competing semantic representations (Colour-naming Stroop task), or the tendency to be distracted by emotional information more generally (Intrusive Cognitions task). Our results suggest that trait empathy increases attention to emotional information, but conceptual encoding occurs across individuals as a natural consequence of attended perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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