Alana J. Topsfield

Nov 13, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Sarah Grainger |Julie Henry |Sarah P. Coundouris |Alana J. Topsfield

ABSTRACTEmpathy plays a fundamental role in successful social interactions. However, most tasks currently available for measuring empathy have limited ecological validity and therefore may not elicit true emotional responses in observers. To address this gap, we developed the Empathic Measure of True Emotion (EMOTE), the first emotion stimuli set to include footage of genuine positive and negative emotions unfolding in naturalistic contexts. We validated the EMOTE in a sample of 216 participants.