Table 2.

Mean scores (standard deviations) on the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES; Mehrabian and Epstein, 1972) and on the abbreviated German version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI, Paulus, 2007), calculated separately for the participants in the body and in the face experiment.

	Body experiment (N = 17)	Faces experiment (N = 16)
BEES
Total Score	48.12 (27.13)	53.50 (25.47)
IRI
Perspective taking	15.59 (3.04)	16.00 (3.03)
Fantasy	13.18 (3.28)	13.31 (3.80)
Empathic concern	14.47 (2.55)	14.37 (2.45)
Personal distress	10.59 (3.40)	9.44 (2.58)