Empathic nonverbal behavior increases ratings of both warmth and competence in a medical context

• Gordon T. Kraft-Todd ,

  * E-mail: gordon.kraft-todd@yale.edu

  Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1220-9269

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• Diego A. Reinero,

  Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• John M. Kelley,

  Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Placebo Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrea S. Heberlein,

  Affiliations Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lee Baer,

  Affiliation Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Helen Riess

  Affiliation Empathy and Relational Science Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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