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What is a shade of your emotions - empathy, personality and physiological responses

Emotion recognition plays a significant role in our daily life, and is a prerequisite of empathy. Empathy, in the most general sense refers to the ability to understand and share feeling of others, and comprises of an emotional and a cognitive component. There are some personality characteristics, like dark personality traits (i.e. psychopathy, sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism) linked to specific deficits in empathy and emotion recognition. Previous research was usually conducted using self-report measures as indicators of empathy, emotion recognition and reactivity to different (intensity) of emotions. However, the literature suggests a disparity between physiological and self-report indicators of emotional response among individuals. Therefore, this study aims to investigate distinct aspects of emotional processes in terms of electrophysiological and subjective self-report ratings, investigating relations of EEG, automatic emotion recognition, empathy and personality traits. Study was conducted on convenience sample of adults. Personality traits and empathy were assessed via self-report measures, after which participants participated in in an emotion recognition task during which their EEG was recorded. The data collected by this multimethod approach shows interesting personality-related effects on distinct aspects of emotional processes in terms of electrophysiological and subjective self-report ratings.

emotion recognition ; empathy ; personality ; physiological responses

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