I know how you feel: the warm-altruistic personality profile and the empathic brain

PloS One
Brian W HaasMegan M Filkowski

Abstract

The ability to empathize with other people is a critical component of human social relationships. Empathic processing varies across the human population, however it is currently unclear how personality traits are associated with empathic processing. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that specific personality traits are associated with behavioral and biological indicators of improved empathy. Extraversion and Agreeableness are personality traits designed to measure individual differences in social-cognitive functioning, however each trait-dimension includes elements that represent interpersonal social functioning and elements that do not represent interpersonal social functioning. We tested the prediction that interpersonal elements of Extraversion (Warmth) and Agreeableness (Altruism) are associated with empathy and non-interpersonal elements of Extraversion and Agreeableness are not associated with empathy. We quantified empathic processing behaviorally (empathic accuracy task using video vignettes) and within the brain (fMRI and an emotional perspective taking task) in 50 healthy subjects. Converging evidence shows that highly warm and altruistic people are well skilled in recognizing the emotional states of othe...Continue Reading

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Jun 22, 2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Brian W HaasAlicia K Smith
Jun 4, 2019·The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology·Xiaolei XuKeith M Kendrick
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