Abstract
We examined the role intergroup scenarios on affecting third-party perceiver liking and how liking affected empathic accuracy. In a within-group design, third-party perceivers viewed and continuously rated the affective states of targets sharing events that happened in their lives to perceived ingroup or outgroup members. The videos were followed by questionnaires on how much perceivers liked and felt close to the targets and questionnaires about themselves on trait empathy. Results indicated that liking did not play a crucial role in empathic accuracy and significant differences in empathic accuracy or liking were not fueled by intergroup contexts. Further, we contributed to the controversy of the relationship between empathy and empathic accuracy.