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empathy_gap
The tendency to underestimate the influence of visceral drives (hunger, pain, desire, emotion) on one's own preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. When in a 'cold' state, people cannot accurately predict their behavior in a 'hot' state and vice versa.
When full, you confidently plan to eat healthy all week. When hungry at the grocery store, you buy junk food. Each state cannot accurately simulate the other.
A manager, feeling calm and rested, designs a tight project deadline thinking the team will handle the pressure fine — failing to anticipate how stressed and error-prone people become when sleep-deprived and overloaded.
A person in a comfortable relationship confidently states they would 'never stay with someone who cheated,' but when actually faced with the emotional reality of the situation years later, finds the decision far more complicated than imagined.
Binary (yes/no) questions an LLM must answer to identify this aspect:
Is a person making judgments or decisions about situations involving a different emotional state than their current one?
Type: binaryDoes the person underestimate how much their judgment would differ if they were in the other emotional state?
Type: binaryAre predictions about future behavior failing to account for the influence of emotional states?
Type: binaryThe tendency to underestimate the influence of visceral drives (hunger, pain, desire, emotion) on one's own preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. When in a 'cold' state, people cannot accurately predict their behavior in a 'hot' state and vice versa.
Current emotional and physical states dominate perception. It is genuinely difficult to simulate what it feels like to be in a radically different state.
Make important decisions in a neutral state when possible. Build systems and commitments that account for future state changes rather than relying on current-state predictions.
Dieting commitments made when full, anger-management plans made when calm, addiction relapse prevention, and policy designed by the comfortable for the suffering.
Use these tools to detect, analyze, or train this aspect.