Abstract
Ickes (2001) defined the ability to accurately infer the internal state of other people as “Empathic Accuracy”. In this study, we examined the relationships between self-reported empathy and two empathic accuracy which reflected emotional or cognitive elements. Our results showed that both empathic accuracies were related to the ability to imagine replacing herself or himself with a character (i.e., fantasy scale). Furthermore, more cognitive empathic accuracy also was negatively related to body listening that is similar to the sensitivity to one’s own experiences, while more emotional empathic accuracy was positively related to emotional contagion scale that means the tendency to share emotional experiences with other persons. Future studies need to confirm the robustness of the results of our study using empathic accuracy on another situations or contexts.
