"Empathic accuracy (EA) – the ability to infer others' emotions accurately – is typically conceptualized as a perceiver-level skill. This perspective implies that performance on different EA tasks should be correlated. Further, EA should be associated with trait empathy, given the theoretical similarity between the constructs, and that EA tasks are often used as behavioural measures of cognitive empathy. "
"Empathic accuracy (EA)—the accurate assessment of another's emotions (Ickes et al., 1990)—has traditionally been conceptualized as an ability of the perceiver (Ickes et al., 1990; Zaki et al., 2008). "