Numerous theories posit a positive relation between perceiving emotion expressed in the
face of a stranger (emotion perception) and feeling or cognitively understanding the emotion …

Empathy is a lay term that is becoming increasingly viewed as a unitary function within the
field of cognitive neuroscience. In this paper, a selective review of the empathy literature is …

Empathy–currently defined as the sharing of another's affective state–has been the focus of
much psychological and neuroscientific research in the last decade, much of which has …

Although the assessment of empathy has moved from general empathy to differentiating
between cognitive and affective empathy, no instruments have assessed somatic (motor) …

The most recent conceptualizations of empathy recognize affective empathy as distinct from
cognitive empathy. Consequently, instruments that assess these 2 types of empathy have …

The psychometric properties of the empathy quotient (EQ) measured by Baron-Cohen
(2003) are examined. In particular, confirmatory factor analyses comparing a unifactorial …

Initially thought of as a unitary ability, empathy has been more recently considered to consist
of 2 components (ie, an affective and a cognitive component). The Basic Empathy Scale …

The quality of empathy research, and clinical assessment, hinges on the validity and proper
interpretation of the measures used to assess the construct. This study investigates, in an …

Objective: The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report that was developed to measure the
cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. We further evaluated its validity in 2 studies …

Empathy deficits feature prominently in theoretical accounts of psychopathy, yet studies that
have examined various aspects of emotional processing related to empathy have produced …