Differential impacts of audiovisual information on empathic accuracy in people with schizophrenia and high social anhedonia

Key Points

• This research aims to explore how audiovisual information affects empathic accuracy in individuals with schizophrenia and high social anhedonia.
• Compared empathic responses in individuals with schizophrenia and high social anhedonia under different audiovisual conditions.
• Assessed both cognitive and affective empathy in various contexts.
• Utilized multimodal stimuli to evaluate empathic accuracy.
• Individuals with schizophrenia showed impairments in both cognitive and affective empathy across contexts.
• Those with high social anhedonia primarily had deficits in cognitive empathy.
• The findings highlight how multimodal conditions exacerbate empathic inaccuracies.