What is a meaningful improvement in emotion detection? Reply to Rossiter (2018).

In his comment, Rossiter (2018) claims that voice-only communication elicits improvements in empathic accuracy that are "so slight as to not be of any practical importance" (p. 689). In this reply, I acknowledge that the reported experiments from Kraus (2017) produced small effects and are limited in terms of what they can conclude about empathic accuracy. Nevertheless, determining the practical importance of any effect is an empirical question worthy of further scrutiny. (PsycINFO Database Record