ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Empathic disequilibrium as a new framework for understanding individual differences in psychopathology.
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- Feeling more than understanding: empathic disequilibrium and emotional reactivity in eating psychopathology.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Equilibrium in empathic concern and personal distress predict identification with all humanity (IWAH) in Indian adolescents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Empathic Disequilibrium in Autistic Traits and CU Traits: Investigating Empathy Imbalance in Children.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Neural Heterogeneity Underlying Behavioral Equivalence: A Dynamic Neuro-Decoding Study of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Relation to Autism-Like Traits.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Facial emotion recognition, empathy & psychopathic traits: understanding differential effects of measures.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Change in empathic disequilibrium across childhood and associations with socioemotional difficulties.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Relationships between empathy, executive functions, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms in early adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Introducing the ELPIS scale: a novel tool for measuring emotional empathy toward cancer patients.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Empathy is part of basic social cognition and is central to everyday interactions. Indeed, emotional and cognitive empathy deficits are related to various psychopathologies, yet the links reported have been inconsistent. Thus, the mechanism underlying these inconsistent links is poorly understood. At least a partial answer may lie in that the dependency between cognitive and emotional empathy has been overlooked. Here, we examined the (dis)equilibrium between emotional and cognitive empathy and how it relates to individual differences in clinical traits. We further examined a possible mediator of these links-emotional reactivity. Methods: Participants ( Results: Beyond empathy, both extremes of empathic disequilibrium were associated with various features of clinical conditions; Higher emotional relative to cognitive empathy was related to the social domain of autism and anxiety, while higher cognitive relative to emotional empathy was related to the non-social domain of autism, depression symptoms, and psychopathic tendencies. The associations with autistic traits, anxiety, and psychopathic tendencies were mediated by emotional reactivity. Discussion: Our findings suggest a new framework for understanding how individual variability in empathy is expressed in various psychopathologies.
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