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| Title |
Motivated empathy: The mechanics of the empathic gaze
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| Published in |
Cognition and Emotion, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1080/02699931.2014.890563 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David G. Cowan, Eric J. Vanman, Mark Nielsen |
| Abstract |
Successful human social interactions frequently rely on appropriate interpersonal empathy and eye contact. Here, we report a previously unseen relationship between trait empathy and eye-gaze patterns to affective facial features in video-based stimuli. Fifty-nine healthy adult participants had their eyes tracked while watching a three-minute long "sad" and "emotionally neutral" video. The video stimuli portrayed the head and shoulders of the same actor recounting a fictional personal event. Analyses revealed that the greater participants' trait emotional empathy, the more they fixated on the eye-region of the actor, regardless of the emotional valence of the video stimuli. Our findings provide the first empirical evidence of a relationship between empathic capacity and eye-gaze pattern to the most affective facial region (eyes). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 15% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 62% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 69% |
| Scientists | 4 | 31% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 130 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 130 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Researcher | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 25 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 59 | 45% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 4% |
| Engineering | 5 | 4% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 21 | 16% |
| Unknown | 32 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 August 2021.
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#2,115,681
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Outputs from Cognition and Emotion
#263
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#20,911
of 234,818 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cognition and Emotion
#2
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