The theory of Empathy is putting ourselves in the shoes of others or simulating their experiences, feelings, and emotions in a given situation. The primordial empathy is the ability to accurately infer the specific content of another person’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Thus, the empathic accuracy is one’s ability to effectively simulate and understand that shared effect.
The ability to understand untold thoughts, feeling, and emotions can give you a clear edge over others by enabling you to foresee and prepare for an appropriate response. It is not always and that a person in all situations speaks and expresses his/her true emotions. Sometimes, actual thoughts and feelings are not congruent with verbal expressions.
“In one of my Marital Mediation, the wife in a caucus setup told me that she would feel happy, relieved for her new sought freedom, if his husband is insisting on divorce. However, while saying so tears rolled down her cheeks, such leaking emotion gave a fleeting expression for me to understand that she is putting a brave front and shielding her insecurities and fear of separation.”
“Empathic accuracy is one of the keys to a fruitful marriage, particularly in the early years of marriage”.
Empathic accuracy is an important aspect of social awareness and an important topic in social psychology. It likewise is by all accounts one of the keys to a fruitful marriage, particularly in the early years of marriage. Couples who are more accurate in their reading of each other’s feelings, thoughts, and emotions have a higher degree of satisfaction and are more likely to have a lasting marriage. A deficit of this, is one sign of a turbulence relationship, as a partner might able to realize the other is feeling bad but wouldn’t have any clue as to what exactly might be on their mind.
Empathic accuracy is to better understand the other person’s issues, needs, and perspectives. It means to become a more accurate reader of other’s emotions, feelings, and thoughts. It is more than just inferring the person’s personality traits but indeed these traits inferences do help in accurately reflecting the dispositional inferences in a particular situation. This helps in knowing how people infer each other’s psychological states, i.e., their thoughts and feelings.
Correlation between Empathic Accuracy and Personality Traits
To interact, with empathic accuracy i.e. listening and primordial empathy, which enhances social cognition is a relevant and important skill to learn. In learning the art of Primordial empathy with empathic accuracy, the understanding of personality traits and attachment behavior helps a lot. Therefore, getting trained in picking personality traits is a great way to start and may well benefit in empathic accuracy.
The personality traits are the aggregate behavior, which is more stable traits and therefore, gives a better projection and empathic accuracy. The trait inferences presumed to reflect the person’s implicit and collective behaviors in different situations across the time, which are more reliable than the implicit behavior reflected due to state inferences (situational aspects).
The personality traits act as a window and might help to better have an empathetic accuracy. The accuracy in interpersonal perception begins by studying the more stable personality dispositions and attachment behaviors.
Correlation between Empathic Accuracy and Attachment Behaviour
If you remember, the big five personality dimensions of the Five-Factor Model (OCEAN). A neurotic wife with high neuroticism and an anxious attachment style would be seeking closeness and continuous reassurance in the relationship. However, would have difficulty in expressing her needs and is not likely to make any direct demands due to fear of rejection. In such a situation, a prior and early understanding of these stable behaviors of personality and attachment style of your partner would help in predicting accurately the feelings, emotions, and needs of the wife.
A known friend/relative or a person close would have such information on personality traits and therefore, a stranger has fewer chances of accurately inferring other’s thoughts and feelings. That is why a mediator or counselor first makes rapport building to interact more and get exchanged more information.
The love expressions are in three forms, i.e., attachment, caregiving, and desire (sex). The matrimonial relationship is the only relationship, where are these three expressions of love mingles up, and therefore, it is this relationship which requires utmost care and understanding.
The Author, Legal Mind Ajit Kumar, is a Relationship Coach, Family Mediator and an expert in conflict resolution besides being a practicing Divorce/Family Lawyer.
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