Table 5.

Participant characteristics.

Instrument	Factors	Mean	SD
EIM (Bachorowski and Braaten, 1994)		165	18.53
Emotional empathy (Mehrabian and Epstein, 1972)		48.58	23.41
IRI (Davis, 1983)		54.60	6.99
TAS (Taylor et al., 1985)		16.58	12.88
Big Five (McCrae and Costa, 1999)
	$|\begin{array}{l}\text{ Neuroticism}\\ \text{ Extraversion}\\ \text{ Openness to experience}\\ \text{ Agreeableness}\\ \text{ Consciencousness}\end{array}$	12.30	11.65
		21.58	9.70
		15.81	10.76
		13.72	9.84
		22.58	12.63
NFC (Cacioppo et al., 1984)		17.44	18.84