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    Higher empathy levels correlate with how individuals structurally represent facial emotions. People with greater empathy perceive amusement and contempt as more similar, influencing the geometry of facial affect perception.

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    Conscious and Non-conscious Representations of Emotional Faces in Asperger's Syndrome
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    Published on: July 31, 2016

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Neuroscience
    • Social Psychology
    • Affective Science

    Background:

    • Empathy is linked to facial emotion recognition.
    • The association between empathy and the structural representation of facial affect is under-explored.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if empathy influences how individuals structurally organize facial affects in face-shape space.
    • To explore the relationship between empathy levels and the representational geometry of facial emotions.

    Main Methods:

    • 53 adults completed a genetic-algorithm face task using the Basel Face Model to generate prototypes for 13 affects.
    • Participants also completed the Empathy Quotient (EQ) to assess empathy levels.
    • A distance matrix comparing affect prototypes was analyzed between higher-EQ and lower-EQ groups.

    Main Results:

    • Reliable, affect-specific face representations were generated for all 13 affects.
    • Higher-empathy individuals structurally positioned amusement and contempt affects closer together compared to lower-empathy individuals.
    • Exploratory analyses indicated empathy is associated with the structural positioning of social-evaluative affects.

    Conclusions:

    • Empathy modulates the representational geometry of facial affect, not just recognition accuracy.
    • Individual differences in empathy are linked to the structural organization of social-evaluative facial affects.
    • Heightened sensitivity to shared expressive structure may underlie the closer representation of amusement and contempt in high-empathy individuals.