AGE DIFFERENCES IN WOMEN’S EMPATHIC ACCURACY WITHIN LONG-TERM MARRIAGES
Casey Brown, Jenna Wells, Claudia Haase, Robert Levenson · 2024
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Casey Brown, Jenna Wells, Claudia Haase, and Robert Levenson studied empathic accuracy in long-term marriages. Their 2024 paper compares middle-aged and older couples. Reading a partner's emotions well helps keep social bonds strong. Empathic skill may shift with age, but close relationships are rarely the test setting. The sample held 154 long-term heterosexual marriages.
Couples discussed a topic of marital disagreement for fifteen minutes in a lab. The talk was recorded on video for later review. Each spouse then rated their own and their partner's feelings moment by moment. Ratings used a dial from very negative to very positive. Accuracy was scored by how closely partner ratings matched self ratings. Age group differences sit at the heart of the analysis.
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| CREATOR | Casey Brown, Jenna Wells, Claudia Haase, Robert Levenson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |