Measuring empathy: reliability and validity of the Empathy Quotient

By E. Lawrence, P. Shaw, Dawn Baker, S. Baron-Cohen, Anthony S. David. Psychological Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in youth with Asperger Syndrome (2015, methodology): “Rogers et al. (2007) tested a group of adults with AS using empathy and ToM tests and confirmed the presence of deficits in cognitive empathy while affective empathy remained intact.”
The basic empathy scale: A French validation of a measure of empathy in youth (2009, background): “The IRI (Davis, 1980) is considered as the best measure of empathy developed (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; Muncer & Ling, 2006) but the fantasy and personal distress subscales of the IRI were regularly criticized (Beven, O’Brien-Malone, & Hall, 2004; Lawrence et al., 2004).”
Measuring empathic tendencies : reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the interpersonal reactivity index (2007, result): “Furthermore, we support other authors’ assumption to question the relevance of including the FS scale for the measurement of pure empathy (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; Lawrence et al., 2004).”
Gender-Typed Play and Social Abilities in Boys and Girls: Are They Related? (2016, background): “For example, it differentiates healthy adults from adults with autism, as well as women from men among healthy adults in Britain (d = .50, Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright 2004; d= .96, Lawrence et al. 2004).”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “The first three questions measure behavioral extraversion and prosocial orientation both of which have been shown in meta-analyses to be positively correlated with measures of social and emotional intelligence (Lawrence et al. 2004; Declerck & Bogaert 2008; Mayer et al. 2008).”
Attitudes towards code-switching among adult mono- and multilingual language users (2014, methodology): “We selected five items with the highest factor loadings from the scale in Lawrence et al. (2004) to measure CE.”
Multilingualism, empathy and multicompetence (2012, background): “Three factors emerged from the analysis, explaining 41% of the variance: (1) Cognitive Empathy: ‘measures the appreciation of affective states’ (Lawrence et al., 2004, p. 918); (2) Emotional Reactivity: ‘reflects the tendency to have an emotional reaction in response to others’ mental states’ (p.…”