Description
This study focuses on the concept of affective empathy, aiming to analyze how the ability to identify emotional states in the other is related to patterns of psychophysiological responsiveness, namely heart rate. Two tasks were performed in an experimental paradigm of emotional induction, considering two conditions: the "focus on the self" and the "focus on the other". After visualization of activating images, both positive and negative, the 36 participants, 27 female and 9 males, classified them by self-report of the intensity of the activation (SAM), while simultaneously recording the cardiac activity. In the gender differentiation at the level of self-report, female participants assessed that the emotional state of the other (experimental condition "focus on the other") was more intense compared to male participants. Regarding self-report, we obtained statistically significant results in the differentiation between the two experimental conditions, between the category of images (i.e., positive and negative) and between the experimental condition "focus on the self" and the two categories of images. In relation to the heart rate, we verified significant differences at the level of the same, in the visualization of negative images considering the condition "focus on the self" and the condition "focus on the other".| Period | 25 Jul 2019 |
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| Degree of Recognition | Master |