Figure 3.

Diagram of empathic accuracy task used in our studies. A) Targets are videotaped while discussing emotional autobiographical events, and later watch the videos of themselves while rating how positive or negative they felt at each moment. In a second phase, perceivers watch target videos and make inferences about how they (perceivers) believe targets feel at each moment. B) Time-series correlations are used to assess a perceiver's accuracy about a given target video. Examples are given of relatively low and high accuracy videos.