Steinebach Philipp, Stein Miriam, Schnell Knut
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Institute of Psychology, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Feb 21;13(1):147. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-02483-9.
How accurate are empathic judgments of couples in smartphone messenger communication? Are judgments influenced by the level of experience with messengers and communication frequency?.
The current preregistered study introduced a novel ecological assessment method and a privacy by design approach to study couples' empathic accuracy in a messenger context.
Data from N = 102 participants (51 couples) was used to investigate how accurate judgments of partners' affect map their partners' actual affect.
Our results demonstrate tracking accuracy and assumed similarity bias in reciprocal empathic judgments of affective valence and arousal during social messenger texting. A small moderation effect for experience with text messengers was found, indicating that partners with higher experience have a higher bias of assumed similarity when rating their partner's valence. A small moderation effect for communication frequency confirms that higher messenger communication frequency is associated with more accurate judgments of arousal.
These results point to the reciprocal action of accuracy and bias in couples' messenger communication and the distinct influences of experience and usage. The feasibility and further application of the ecological messenger-based assessment of couples' empathic accuracy in interpersonal research are discussed.
在智能手机即时通讯应用的交流中，伴侣间的共情判断有多准确？这些判断会受到即时通讯应用使用经验水平和交流频率的影响吗？
当前这项预先注册的研究引入了一种新颖的生态评估方法和一种设计隐私的方法，以研究伴侣在即时通讯应用情境中的共情准确性。
来自N = 102名参与者（51对伴侣）的数据被用于调查对伴侣情感的判断与伴侣实际情感的匹配程度。
我们的结果表明，在社交即时通讯应用短信交流过程中，情感效价和唤醒度的相互共情判断存在追踪准确性和假定相似性偏差。发现短信应用使用经验有一个小的调节效应，表明经验更丰富的伴侣在评价伴侣的效价时，假定相似性的偏差更大。交流频率有一个小的调节效应，证实更高的即时通讯应用交流频率与对唤醒度更准确的判断相关。
这些结果表明，伴侣即时通讯应用交流中准确性和偏差的相互作用，以及经验和使用的不同影响。讨论了基于即时通讯应用的伴侣共情准确性生态评估在人际研究中的可行性和进一步应用。
