Empathic accuracy research indicates that partners achieve only moderate success at reading each other's thoughts. The current study identifies specific patterns of online thought that contribute to empathic inaccuracy during conflict interactions. Married/cohabiting partners completed a conflict interaction and reported their own thoughts during video‐assisted recall of the interaction, also inferring the thoughts of the other partner. Content analysis of these online thoughts demonstrated a high degree of mindfulness about the process of communication, along with a perspective bias, in which partners tended to construe their own communication as constructive and the other partner's communication as avoidant and confrontational. Specific mind‐reading errors linked to both the thematic content and affective tone of online thought predicted lower overall empathic accuracy.

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冲突过程中的移情准确性和认知：对理解得分的深入分析

移情准确性研究表明，伙伴在阅读彼此的思想时仅取得中等程度的成功。当前的研究确定了在线思维的特定模式，这些模式在冲突互动过程中会导致共情不准确。已婚/同居伴侣完成了一次冲突互动，并在通过视频辅助回忆互动时报告了自己的想法，还推断出另一位伴侣的想法。对这些在线思想的内容分析显示出对沟通过程的高度关注，并带有视角偏见，在这种视角下，合作伙伴倾向于将自己的沟通理解为建设性的，而另一方的沟通则理解为避免和对抗的。