Although interoception underpins our emotional experience, little is known about its role on how we affectively relate to others. Emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) reflects the tendency to use one’s own emotional state when relating to others.
By contrast, at the systolic condition, when participant's receive information about the other's emotional state at a time when their own cardiac physiological is accentuated, we hypothesized enhanced EEB at higher but not lower levels of IAcc, given that individuals with higher IAcc experience increased emotional intensity (Barrett et al., 2004 Pollatos et al., 2005) and also possess a stronger sense of self, grounded in their interoceptive states (Sel, Azevedo, & Tsakiris, 2017 Suzuki, Garfinkel, Critchley, & Seth, 2013 Tsakiris, Jimenez, & Costantini, 2011).Īt the heart of social cognition is our ability to distinguish between self and other and correctly attribute mental and affective states to their origin. Specifically, if higher IAcc is indeed advantageous, EEB scores are expected to be lower in this scenario, consistent with past research (see von Mohr, Finotti, Ambroziak, & Tsakiris, 2019) where lower EEB values indicate that individuals are accurately attributing the emotional experience to c o r t e x 1 4 5 ( 2 0 2 1 ) 3 2 7 e3 4 0 self or the other. Consistent with recent studies (Grynberg & Pollatos, 2015 Shah et al., 2017) and theoretical postulations (Palmer & Tsakiris, 2018), we hypothesized lower EEB at higher levels of IAcc in the diastolic, baseline condition, indicating that people who are more accurate and aware of their own cardiac activity can better judge other's emotional state without overimposing their own. This new, easily implemented version of the EEB task can accelerate the investigation of egocentricity biases in several research areas. We provide lab-based and online validations of the AV-EEB, and demonstrate a positive relationship between EEB and social negative potency. Auditory and visual signals are both public, in that they can be shared among individuals, and make the task easier to implement and control. vision) sensory information, our EEB task (AV-EEB) used audio-visual stimuli to evoke congruent/incongruent emotions in participants. Unlike the original EEB task that relies on a combination of private (e.g.
We capitalised on the classic EEB task to develop a new version that is easier to implement and control. However, emotional egocentric biases (EEB), namely the tendency to use one’s own emotional state when relating to others’ emotions, may hinder this process, especially when emotions are incongruent. We often use our own emotions to understand other people’s emotions.
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