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They were instructed to empathize with targets describing positive and negative events while their SCL, FE, and SR were recorded. It was hypothesized that higher psychopathic traits would correlate with weaker coherence measures and that coherence would increase when participants empathized deliberately. Results showed no significant correlations between psychopathic traits and coherence measures, except a positive relationship between psychopathic traits and SCL/FE coherence when viewing negative videos. 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