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Mirror-Touch Synaesthetes
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Cognitive Empathy Emotional Reactivity Social Skills
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Chapter 4
Figure 4.2 In experiment 2, mirror-touch synaesthetes showed significantly higher
scores than controls on the emotional reactivity component, but not other components,
of the Empathy Quotient (mean ± s.e.m). * = p < .05.
In addition, on the IRI mirror-touch synaesthetes showed significantly
elevated scores on the fantasizing subscale [t(30) = 2.35, p = < .05], but not on the
alternative subscales (Figure 4.3). Of note, is the comparable performance of
synaesthetes and controls on the perspective taking subscale and higher scores of
controls relative to synaesthetes on the personal distress subscale, which indicates that
differences were not simply due to a tendency for synaesthetes to provided higher
self-reported values overall (also see Figure 4.4).