Hogan Empathy Scale.
HES
- What it measures
- Empathy conceived purely cognitively (social insight / role-taking); a single empathy disposition score
- Length and format
- 64 (true/false). true/false (items drawn from the MMPI and CPI item pools) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages historically (e.g. used internationally in empathy/altruism research)
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Hogan, R. (1969). Development of an empathy scale. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 33(3), 307-316. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0027580
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