‘I know how I feel’

‘I know how they must feel’: Empathy and judging defendants

The current study investigated the effects of state and trait empathy in legal judgments and tested the relationship between trait and state emotion in one hundred and fifty eight students aged 18-59. Assessments were taken of participants’ trait empathy and then state empathy was induced in half the sample. Following this all participants read a trial transcript and made judgments regarding: t...

How Do I Know?

Husband is the senior advisor for root cause analyses in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Peformance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses. He is a retired Air Force officer with a doctorate in chemical engineering from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is grateful to Gary Bliss, Bob Jennings, Mike Ginter, John Mueller and Ed Mc...

How do I feel about myself?

Do You Know How I Feel? Evaluating Emotional Display of Primary and Secondary Emotions

In this paper we report on an empirical study on how well different facial expressions of primary and secondary emotions [2] can be recognized from the face of our emotional virtual human Max [1]. Primary emotions like happiness are more primitive, onto-genetically earlier types of emotions, which are expressed by direct mapping on basic emotion display; secondary emotions like relief or gloati...

I Know How You Feel: The Warm-Altruistic Personality Profile and the Empathic Brain

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 improve...