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- Title
Different effects of facial attractiveness on empathic responses in counselors and matched controls.
- Authors
Luo, Pinchao; Yin, Mengmeng; Li, Yue
- Abstract
Empathy is one of the necessary conditions of therapeutic personality change. Inaccurate empathy becomes a hinder of counseling outcome. Previous studies demonstrated that empathic responses could be modulated by facial attractiveness. However, what remains to be clarified is that whether the counselors' empathic responses are affected by facial attractiveness. To investigate this question, the present study compared empathic responses to high-attractive-facial and low-attractive-facial expressions in the counselors and the matched controls. The results showed that no significant difference between empathic responses to high and low attractive facial expressions was found in the counselors. On the contrary, empathic responses were significantly stronger for highly attractive facial pictures with happy expression, but weaker for highly attractive facial pictures with sad expression. The contrast between the counselors and the controls sheds light on the psychological mechanism through which the counselors show their enhanced capability of overcoming empathy bias due to their professional training. The study offers an opportunity to better understand the counselors' empathy ability.
- Subjects
FACIAL expression &; emotions (Psychology); COUNSELORS; FACIAL expression; PERSONALITY change; EMPATHY
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 11, p7595
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-020-01301-2