Week 5: Zaki & Bolger empathic accuracy article

Question 1

What is empathic accuracy dependent of?

Answer 1

1. Target’s tendency to express emotion
2. perceivers tendency to empathically share that emotion

Question 2

What is empathy accuracy

Answer 2

the ability to understand the internal states of targets measured in accuracy (recognizing the emotion)

Question 3

What is affective empathy?

Answer 3

perceiver’s experience of sharing the emotions they observe in social targets (experiencing the emotion)