Effects of social exclusion on emotional and cognitive empathy
comorbid PTSD, Cognitive empathy, PTSD, BPD
Cognitive empathy scores did not significantly differ between the two Cyberball conditions, (Cognitive empathy (In the analysis of emotional empathy, we found a significant main effect for group, (There was no valence × condition interaction effect (To account for the possible influence of mood on emotional empathy, we included baseline mood on the MDMQ good vs. bad scale as a covariate into our main analysis. We did not find a main effect for group anymore, (We additionally analyzed whether patients with comorbid PTSD differed from those without PTSD. We also compared patients with BPD with and without intake of psychotropic medication. We found no effects of PTSD status or medication intake on cognitive or emotional empathy, all 