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KMID : 0981220170170010001
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2017 Volume.17 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.19
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The effect of empathic accuracy and emotional expressivity on interpersonal attraction
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Nam Hye-Rim
Kim Seo-Hee
Joo Eun-Young
Yang Jae-Won
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Abstract
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The study was conducted to determine how cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and nonverbal emotional expressivity are related to interpersonal attraction. The same-sex pair of subjects, who did not have any acquaintance, were matched in advance, and they were asked to talk about their recent positive and negative events while their front being videotaped. During the conversation, which lasted eight minutes, the partners took turns in talking about their events, with two minutes for each event. After the talk, subjects completed the interpersonal attraction in the separate room, and watched their own videotape to record their emotion felt during the conversation with a software for continuous affect rating. Also, they were requested to view their partner’s videotape and infer what he or she felt. Empathic accuracy and the degree of emotional assimilation were calculated based on intraclass correlation coefficients between subject’s self-affect rating and subject’s inference about the partner. Nonverbal emotional expressivity was measured by two same-sex raters who did not participate in the study, and watched videotapes of every subject without sound. The results indicated that interpersonal attraction was positively correlated with emotional empathy and positive nonverbal emotional expression. Also, positive indirect-only mediation through emotional empathy was observed between cognitive empathy and interpersonal attraction. The implications and limitations of this study were also discussed.
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KEYWORD
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empathic accuracy, nonverbal emotional expressivity, interpersonal attraction
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