On the difficulty of distinguishing “good” and “poor” perceivers: A social relations analysis of empathic accuracy data

By William Ickes, A. Buysse, Hao Pham, Kerri L. Rivers, J. R. Erickson, M. Hancock, J. Kelleher, P. R. Gesn. 2000

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Gender Roles and Empathic Accuracy: The Role of Communion in Reading Minds (2009, methodology): “Although few individual difference predictors of empathic accuracy have been found, one variable that has consistently predicted empathic accuracy under certain specified conditions is the gender of the perceiver (e.g., Ickes et al. 2000b).”
The functional architecture of human empathy. (2004, background): “Some people have greater empathic ability than others, as demonstrated by the work of Marangoni, Garcia, and Ickes (1995) and Ickes et al. (2000).”
Reintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research (2011, background): “91), abandoning their endeavors almost completely for more than 25 years (Funder, 1987, 1995; Gilbert, 1998; Ickes, 1997; Ickes et al., 2000; Kenny & Albright, 1987).”