The Empathy Quotient: An Investigation of Adults with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism, and Normal Sex Differences

By Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally J. Wheelwright. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education

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Development of short forms of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-Short) and the Systemizing Quotient (SQ-Short) (2006, background): “An individual scores two points if they strongly display a systemizing/empathizing response, and one point if they slightly display a systemizing/empathizing response (i.e., each item being scored 2,1,0,0) (Baron-Cohen et al., 2003; Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004).”
Cognitive style predicts entry into physical sciences and humanities: Questionnaire and performance tests of empathy and systemizing (2007, methodology): “The EQ is a 40-item questionnaire designed to assess cognitive and affective empathy (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004).”
Agreeableness is related to social‐cognitive, but not social‐perceptual, theory of mind (2008, background): “Agreeableness is that the ‘empathy quotient’ ( Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004 ), a self-report measure designed to tap ToM differences in normal adults, correlates with five-factor Agreeableness at above 0.7 (Nettle, 2007).”
The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal (2007, methodology): “Finally, participants completed four dispositional measures: the IRI (Davis, 1996), Empathy Quotient [EQ] (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004), Emotional Contagion Scale [ECS] (Doherty, 1997), and Emotion Regulation Scale [ERS] (Gross & John, 2003).”
Different routes to limited empathy in the sexes: Examining the links between the Dark Triad and empathy (2013, methodology): “The items were averaged to create a Machiavellianism index (a = .77).2 Empathy Quotient (EQ; Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004) was used to measure empathy.”
Exploring the link between reading fiction and empathy: Ruling out individual differences and examining outcomes (2009, background): “Women are more likely to be readers (Statistics Canada, 1998), and are also more empathic (Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2004; Davis, 1980).”
Vision in autism spectrum disorders. (2009, background): “…of a number of standard illusions and the Autism Spectrum, Empathising and Systemising Quotient questionnaires (AQ: Baron-Cohen et al., 2001b; EQ: Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; SQ: Baron-Cohen, Richler, Bisarya, Gurunuthan, & Wheelwright, 2003, respectively), which measure traits associated…”
Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study. (2012, positive): “Participants completed the Empathy Quotient Questionnaire (EQ; Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004), and then, while undergoing fMRI scans, viewed a series of negative valence human and animal images (e.g. murdered people, mutilations, wounds), as well as neutral landscape images.”
Exploring self‐compassion and empathy in the context of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) (2010, background): “…in this report as its focus on identifi cation with fi ctional characters is not considered an exclusive aspect of empathy; furthermore, it demonstrates poor concurrent validity with other empathy measures (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; Lawrence, Shaw, Baker, Baron-Cohen, & David, 2004).”
Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans (2009, background): “Previous studies have documented that impaired performance on the RMET predicts higher scores on a measure of autistic traits in both clinical and control groups (27, 29).”
Sex differences in direct aggression: What are the psychological mediators? (2006, background): “Psychometric measures of empathy consistently report a higher mean for female samples (e.g. Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1978).”
The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species (2015, background): “Additionally, gender, one of the strongest predictors of concerns about animal welfare (Kellert & Berry, 1987), is consistently correlated with empathy (BaronCohen, 2002; Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004).”