Individual differences in empathy: The role of facial expression recognition

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The affective and cognitive empathic nature of the dark triad of personality. (2012, background): “A recent study (Besel & Yuille, 2010), investigating how individual differences in empathy – as measured by the EQ – relate to facial expression recognition found that only affective empathy was a significant predictor of overall expression accuracy.”
Transportation into a story increases empathy, prosocial behavior, and perceptual bias toward fearful expressions (2012, background): “Recent work demonstrates that individuals higher in dispositional empathy have enhanced perception of emotional facial expressions, particularly fearful expressions (Besel & Yuille, 2010; Clark, Winkielman, & McIntosh, 2008).”
Empathy: A Review of the Concept (2016, background): “There are other ways of understanding another’s feelings without taking their perspective, such as reading facial expression (Besel & Yuille, 2010), accessing relevant memories of previous emotional situations (Eisenberg, 1986), imagining events in another place or time (Stinson & Ickes, 1992), and…”