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  • Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Empathic accuracy is crucial for social functioning.
  • Previous research on age and empathic accuracy has yielded mixed results.
  • Understanding age-related changes in emotion perception is vital for social cognition research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related differences in empathic accuracy among adolescent, young adult, and middle-aged men.
  • To explore the association between cognitive abilities and empathic accuracy across different age groups.
  • To examine the role of fluid-mechanical and crystallized-pragmatic intelligence in age differences in emotion perception.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional study involving 151 male participants across three age groups: adolescents (16 years), young adults (29 years), and middle-aged adults (50 years).
  • Participants viewed film clips depicting individuals experiencing anger, sadness, or happiness.
  • Assessment of empathic accuracy, fluid-mechanical abilities, and vocabulary (crystallized-pragmatic intelligence).

Main Results:

  • Adolescents and middle-aged men exhibited lower empathic accuracy compared to young adult men.
  • Age differences in empathic accuracy were significantly associated with age differences in fluid-mechanical abilities.
  • Vocabulary (crystallized-pragmatic intelligence) was linked to empathic accuracy in adolescents and young adults, but not in middle-aged men.

Conclusions:

  • Empathic accuracy appears to be a cognitively demanding process, requiring significant cognitive resources.
  • Empathic accuracy may increase through adolescence into young adulthood, with potential declines in later adulthood.
  • Fluid intelligence plays a key role in maintaining empathic accuracy across the lifespan.