Items:

Cognitive Empathy

Perspective Taking
1. I can easily work out what another person might want to talk about.
2. I can tell if someone is masking their true emotion.
3. I can sense if I am intruding, even if the other person does not tell me.
4. I am good at predicting how someone will feel.
5. I am good at predicting what someone will do.
6. I am quick to spot when someone in a group is feeling awkward or uncomfortable.
7. I can pick up quickly if someone says one thing but means another.
8. I can easily tell if someone else is interested or bored with what I am saying.
9. I can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation.
10. Other people tell me I am good at understanding how they are feeling and what they are thinking.

Online Simulation
11. I try to look at everybody’s side of a disagreement before I make a decision.
12. Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I was in their place.
13. When I am upset at someone, I usually try to “put myself in his shoes” for a while.
14. I always try to consider the other fellow’s feelings before I do something.
15. I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.
16. I can usually appreciate the other person’s viewpoint, even if I do not agree with it.
17. I sometimes find it difficult to see things from the “other guy’s” point of view.*
18. Before I do something I try to consider how my friends will react to it.
19. I find it easy to put myself in somebody else’s shoes.

Affective Empathy

Emotion Contagion
20. I am happy when I am with a cheerful group and sad when the others are glum.
21. It worries me when others are worrying and panicky.
22. People I am with have a strong influence on my mood.
23. I am inclined to get nervous when others around me seem to be nervous.

Peripheral Responsivity
24. I usually stay emotionally detached when watching a film.*
25. I am usually objective when I watch a film or play, and I don’t often get completely caught up in it.*
26. I often get deeply involved with the feelings of a character in a film, play, or novel.
27. It is hard for me to see why some things upset people so much.*

Proximal Responsivity
28. I often get emotionally involved with my friends’ problems.
29. Friends talk to me about their problems as they say that I am very understanding.
30. It affects me very much when one of my friends seems upset.
31. I get very upset when I see someone cry.

Response Options:
Strongly disagree - 1
Slightly disagree - 2
Slightly agree - 3
Strongly agree - 4

*Items are reverse scored.