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Emotional and social intelligence

Emotional Contagion Scale.

ECS

What it measures
Susceptibility to catching others' emotions - tendency to automatically mimic and synchronize with others' emotional expressions (love/happiness, fear, anger, sadness)
Length and format
15 items. 5-pt frequency (never - always) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, Finnish, ZH, etc.); used internationally in emotion and empathy research
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Doherty, R. W. (1997). The Emotional Contagion Scale: A measure of individual differences. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 21(2), 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024956003661

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024956003661

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