Empathic accuracy

"What does she want?" "How does he feel about that?" "What are they trying to accomplish?" We ask ourselves these kinds of questions every day, in nearly every social encounter we experience. Empathic inference, or "everyday mind reading," is a form of complex psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning are combined to yield insights into the subjective experience of others. In a single, comprehensive volume, Empathic Accuracy introduces two innovative methods for objectively measuring this key dimension of social intelligence and summarizes the most…