The Relationship Between Empathy and Changes in Pupil Diameter When Perceiving Photo Images of Various Categories

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The article presents the results of a research aimed at testing the hypothesis of the relationship between changes in pupil diameter when perceiving photo images of various categories and the peculiarities of empathy. The research involved 62 subjects whose pupil diameters were recorded using an eye tracker. Patterns of change in pupil diameter were revealed for three groups of subjects with different ratios of empathy structural components.

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Elena Avenirovna Troitskaya

Moscow State Linguistic University

Author for correspondence.
Email: ea.troitskaya@mail.ru

PhD (Psychology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogical Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Applied Sciences, Moscow State Linguistic University

Russian Federation

Olga Pavlovna Marchenko

Moscow State Linguistic University; Moscow State University of Psychology and Education

Email: olga.p.marchenko@yandex.ru

PhD (Psychology), Associate Professor of the Department of General Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education; Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogical Anthropology, Institute of Humanities and Applied Sciences, Moscow State Linguistic University

Russian Federation

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