著者

串崎 真志

出版者

関西大学大学院心理学研究科

雑誌

関西大学心理学研究 (ISSN:21850070)

巻号頁・発行日

no.8, pp.1-12, 2017-03

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Empathic accuracy is the degree to which a perceiver is able to accurately infer the specific content of another person's successive thoughts and feelings. It involves both processes of cognitive empathy and emotional contagion and enhances motor mimicry (automatic imitation/synchronization). Four experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis if the motor mimicry associates a process of empathy, then empathic accuracy in emotional contagion would increase the frequency of draws in paper-rock-scissors. Participants (study 1: N=88, study 2: N=88, study 3: N=88, study 4: N=72) were asked to complete the emotional contagion subscale and the odor awareness scale (study 2 to 4 only) and report how much they currently felt lonely, active, and tired on a 7-point scale. They were paired with partners and rated on how much they thought the partner had a current feeling of loneliness, energy, and fatigue by just looking at his/ her face. Consistent with the hypothesis, study 1, 3, and 4 showed that the frequency of draws increased as the dyadic scores of empathic accuracy increased.相手の思考や感情の内容を正確に推測する能力の程度を,共感の正確性という。本研究では,共感の正確性が高いほど,じゃんけんで引き分けやすいかどうかを検証するために,4 つの実験を実施した。大学生の参加者(研究1 : N = 88, 研究2 : N = 88, 研究3 : N = 88, 研究4 : N = 72)が,情動伝染尺度及び匂い気づき尺度に記入し,自分と相手の気分(孤独・活気・疲労の程度)を7 段階で評定した。研究1,3,4 では,仮説に一致して,共感の正確性の二人の合計が高いほど,じゃんけんで引き分けが出やすくなっていたが,仮説と反対の結果もみられた。共感の正確性と動作模倣について考察した。