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
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