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View article: Directional bias in interpersonal emotion perception
Directional bias in interpersonal emotion perception Open
Accurately understanding others’ emotional states is fundamental to effective social functioning. While extensive research exists on how humans recognize different emotions, little is known about how people assess emotional intensity. Thro…
View article: Reading Between the Lines: LLMs Match or Exceed Human Empathic Accuracy Using Text Alone
Reading Between the Lines: LLMs Match or Exceed Human Empathic Accuracy Using Text Alone Open
Empathy plays a central role in human emotional relationships. Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately infer another person’s emotional state, varies by informational modality and, in humans, is often intertwined with emotional and mo…
View article: Seeing to Connect: How Visual and Auditory Channels Shape Empathic Interactions
Seeing to Connect: How Visual and Auditory Channels Shape Empathic Interactions Open
This research examines how visual and auditory channels affect empathic interactions. Going beyond past work, which focuses mainly on the person experiencing empathy (perceivers), we explore the experiences of empathy recipients (targets) …
View article: Empathy and Interest Towards an Autistic Person and the Effect of Disclosing the Diagnosis
Empathy and Interest Towards an Autistic Person and the Effect of Disclosing the Diagnosis Open
This study investigates the effects of disclosing an autism diagnosis on non-autistic listeners’ empathy and social interest towards the autistic discloser. In Study 1, participants (non-autistic students in the social sciences/humanities …
View article: Seeing to Connect: How Visual and Auditory Channels Shape Empathic Interactions
Seeing to Connect: How Visual and Auditory Channels Shape Empathic Interactions Open
This research examines how visual and auditory channels affect empathic interactions. Going beyond past work, which focuses mainly on the person experiencing empathy (perceivers), we explore the experiences of empathy recipients (targets) …
View article: Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders Open
Empathy, the capacity to share others’ emotional experiences, has been proposed as a key motivation for altruistic behavior in both humans and animals. Sharing another’s emotional experience may generate a self-embodied simulation of their…
View article: Intonation Units in Spontaneous Speech Evoke a Neural Response
Intonation Units in Spontaneous Speech Evoke a Neural Response Open
Spontaneous speech is produced in chunks called intonation units (IUs). IUs are defined by a set of prosodic cues and presumably occur in all human languages. Recent work has shown that across different grammatical and sociocultural condit…
View article: Intonation Units in spontaneous speech evoke a neural response
Intonation Units in spontaneous speech evoke a neural response Open
Spontaneous speech is produced in chunks called Intonation Units (IUs). IUs are defined by a set of prosodic cues and occur in all human languages. Linguistic theory suggests that IUs pace the flow of information and serve as a window onto…
View article: Physicians prescribe fewer analgesics during night shifts than day shifts
Physicians prescribe fewer analgesics during night shifts than day shifts Open
Adequate pain management is one of the biggest challenges of the modern healthcare system. Physician perception of patient subjective pain, which is crucial to pain management, is susceptible to a host of potential biases. Here we explore …
View article: Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy Open
When people encounter others’ emotions, they engage multiple brain systems, including parts of the sensorimotor cortex associated with motor simulation. Simulation-related brain activity is commonly described as a ‘low-level’ component of …
View article: Escalation of sleep disturbances amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional international study
Escalation of sleep disturbances amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional international study Open
View article: Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy
Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy Open
When people encounter others' emotions, they engage multiple brain systems, including parts of the sensorimotor cortex associated with motor simulation. Simulation-related brain activity is commonly described as a “low-level” component of …