2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Accuracy of behavior prediction based on cognitive empathy
| Project/Area Number |
21730500
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Research Field |
Social psychology
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Taisho University (2011)
Nagano University (2009-2010) |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
|
| Keywords | 他者理解 / 共感性 / 利他行動 / 囚人のジレンマ / 眼球運動 |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to figure out the process of cognitive empathy for predicting other's behavior. As a result of analyzing gaze fixation in face to face interaction, people with high emotional empathy often look at their partner. Additionally, people with high imaginative cognitive empathy had a tendency to attend mainly to partner's face. This ratio was connected with the accuracy of behavior prediction. These results indicate that imaginative cognitive empathy is one component of a process to simulate another person's emotion and use the simulated emotion to predict that person's behavior.
|
