Looks like the degree of engagement in cognitive distortions such as ‘emotional reasoning’, though, were measured based on self-reports. Seems likely to me that

Looks like the degree of engagement in cognitive distortions such as ‘emotional reasoning’, though, were measured based on self-reports. Seems likely to me that someone with an empathy deficit would be both less likely to agree that words can harm and less capable of realistically reporting how much emotional reasoning they engage in.