Table 2.
Pearson’s r and p-values for the correlations between pupil size measures (collapsed across all time windows) and trait empathy scores (Empathy Quotient, and its subscales, and reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores), in each emotion separately.
| Empathy trait scores | Laughter | Crying | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum | Mean | Maximum | Mean | |||||
| Pearson’s r | p-value | Pearson’s r | p-value | Pearson’s r | p-value | Pearson’s r | p-value | |
| Empathy quotient (EQ; total) | .28 | .151 | .12 | .543 | .22 | .258 | .08 | .677 |
| EQ cognitive empathy | − .37 | .050 | − .42 | .028* | − .27 | .157 | − .20 | .297 |
| EQ social skills | − .14 | .467 | − .05 | .791 | − .08 | .655 | .18 | .371 |
| EQ emotional reactivity | − .17 | .379 | .04 | .835 | − .15 | .450 | .21 | .290 |
| EQ empathic difficulty | .29 | .130 | .11 | .590 | .27 | .170 | .05 | .784 |
| Reading the mind in the eyes test (RMET) | − .11 | .567 | − .30 | .125 | − .07 | .718 | − .22 | .265 |
Statistical significance level: * p < .05.