Table I.

Behavioral results

	Group	n	Mean	95%‐CI	t	P [one‐tailed]
Somatization (Symptom‐Checklist‐90‐R‐somatization)
	h	16	42.2	37.8–46.6	4.718	<0.001**
	p	19	65.3	56.6–74.0
Alexithymia (Toronto‐Alexithymia‐Scale‐20)
	h	19	36.7	32.8–40.6	6.115	<0.001**
	p	20	54.4	49.7–59.0
Depression (Beck‐Depression‐Inventory)
	h	18	3	0.7–5.3	8.217	<0.001**
	p	20	19.6	16.1–23.1
Empathy (Interpersonal‐Reactivity‐Index)
Empathic fantasy	h	19	23.1	20.7–25.5	0.233	0.816
	p	20	22.7	20.0–25.5
Empathic concern	h	19	26.7	24.8–28.6	0.550	0.586
	p	20	25.9	23.6–28.2
Empathic distress	h	19	19.3	16.7–22.0	6.483	<0.001**
	p	20	31.6	28.6–34.5
Perspective taking	h	19	24.2	21.8–26.5	1.288	0.207
	p	20	22.4	20.7–24.1
Emotion recognition (Tübinger‐Affekt‐Batterie)‐Error rates
Total	h	14	14.0%	9.5–18.6%	3.006	0.003**
	p	20	23.1%	18.6–27.7%
Neutral	h	14	7.1%	2.8–11.5%	1.248	0.111
	p	20	10.7%	6.6–14.8%
Anger	h	14	10.3%	6.4–14.2%	2.440	0.011*
	p	20	19.4%	12.5–26.2%
Sadness	h	14	11.0%	5.2–16.7%	2.302	0.014*
	p	20	20.3%	13.9–26.8%
Fear	h	14	20.1%	14.2–26.0%	2.242	0.016*
	p	20	30.3%	22.7–38.0%
Joy	h	14	21.0%	11.3–30.6%	2.176	0.019*
	p	20	34.1%	25.7–42.5%
Intra‐scanner empathy ratings‐trial based
Total	h	20	63.6	56.2–71.0	[due to a lack of significant interactions in the ANOVA, t‐tests were not calculated]
	p	20	68.0	60.6–75.5
Neutral	h	20	57.5	49.3–65.7
	p	20	70.2	63.1–77.3
Anger	h	20	59.2	48.6–69.8
	p	20	62.3	50.9–73.7
Joy	h	20	80.5	73.5–87.5
	p	20	83.9	77.2–90.7
Disgust	h	20	57.2	46.0–68.4
	p	20	55.0	42.9–67.1
Intra‐scanner ratings‐block based
Engagement	h	20	68.0	61.1–74.9	0.809	0.424
	p	20	73.3	61.6–84.9
Contentedness	h	20	63.6	54.8–72.3	0.429	0.670
	p	20	69.6	57.6–81.4

Behavioral results of healthy subjects (h) and somatoform patients (p).