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Naturalistic social cognition: Empathic accuracy in mixed-sex dyads.

Ickes, William, Stinson, Linda, Bissonnette, Victor, Garcia, Stella·1990·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.59.4.730
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The research paradigm that Ickes and his colleagues developed for study of naturalistic social cognition was used to explore phenomenon of empathic accuracy in initial, unstructured interactions of 38 mixed-sex (male-female) dyads. The results indicated that an important aspect of empathic accuracy—content accuracy—could be measured reliably (a = .94) with procedure used. The results further indicated that content accuracy was, to a large extent, an emergent product of social interaction processes occurring at level of dyad. Although of findings could be explained in informational terms, some significant motivational influences were observed as well. For example, content accuracy was influenced by partner's physical attractiveness and, more generally, by perceiver's apparent interest in partner (as indexed by various thought/feeling measures). The individual difference variables of grade point average and selfmonitoring also predicted subjects' levels of content accuracy; however, gender and self-report measures of empathic skills and empathic accuracy did not. If study of subjective phenomena involving or occurring within a single conscious mind is domain of mainstream cognitive psychology, it follows logically that study of intersubjective phenomena involving or occurring between at least two conscious minds is proper domain of cognitive social psychology (Ickes, Tooke, Stinson, Baker, & Bissonnette, 1988). The logic of this conclusion has been consensually validated by both present and past reviewers of social cognition research. For example, Markus and Zajonc (1985) ended their Handbook chapter on cognitive social psychology by stating that the properties of social perception and social cognition that make them distinct are reciprocity and intersubjectivity (p. 213). They noted that many earlier authors, such as Mead (1934), Merleau-Ponty (1970), Asch, (1952), and Heider (1958), have drawn essentially same conclusion. In general, intersubjective phenomena can be characterized as those involving some form of interdependence between contents or processes of at least two conscious minds (cf. Wegner, Giuliano, & Hertel, 1985). Given this definition, intersubjective phenomena are clearly not most frequently studied phenomena in cognitive social psychology (Ickes et al., 1988). In most studies of human social cognition, researchers have not inquired how contents and processes of one mind are interdependent with those of another. Instead, using as their models studies conducted in more traditional areas of psychology, they have inquired how contents and processes of

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  • The naturalistic empathic accuracy (EA) paradigm used was validated in social psychological research.

    “We developed a variant of a naturalistic empathic accuracy (EA) paradigm validated in social psychological research (21, 24, 25) that allowed for exploration of how brain activity tracked with perceivers' accuracy about social targets' effect.”

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Authors
Ickes, W., Stinson, L., Bissonnette, V., & Garcia, S.
Affiliations
The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1990-10
Volume
59
Issue
4
Pages
730-742
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/0022-3514.59.4.730
OpenAlex
W2123473021
Cited by
523
References
95
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22.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
empathic accuracy, mixed-sex dyads, intersubjectivity, content accuracy, physical attractiveness, self-monitoring, grade point average, cognitive social psychology, interpersonal perception, gender differences in empathy

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