Since the discovery of primates' mirror neurons until today, there have been attempts to answer the dilemma of their existence in the human brain. Considering various difficulties regarding their direct examination, researchers are making efforts to gain knowledge about them through relations of the phenomena believed to potentially have a biological basis in the mirror neurons system. Therefore, in the scientific community, imitation and empathy were the most frequently investigated constructs regarding this topic. As the predictive function of imitation was hypothesized, experts have noticed the phenomena of anticipated imitation, a tendency to perform an action perceived to be following the observed action. Having in mind the findings which repeatedly present a positive correlation between the imitation frequency and empathy, and also the tendency to imitate those who show certain similarities to the observer, the aim of this research was to test both the relation between anticipated imitation and empathy and the incidence of anticipated imitation regarding the ability to identify oneself with the observed model by their sex. The research was conducted at University of Zadar and included 40 students (22 female). They were shown videotapes of female and male models reading a story and wrinkling their nose from time to time. While watching the videotapes, every participant was recorded, and later they filled out the empathy questionnaire. The main dependent variable is the frequency of anticipated imitation, which is operationalized as nose scratching while observing model's nose wrinkling. The results show a positive correlation between empathy and nose scratching frequency while observing the female model, a positive correlation between both emotional empathy and nose scratching in total, and of emotional empathy and nose scratching while observing the female model. Furthermore, there is no difference in anticipated imitation incidence in regards to sex congruency of participants and models.