Empathy Quotient Assessment - Self Report

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1. I can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation.
2. I can pick up quickly if someone says one thing but means another.
3. I am good at predicting how someone will feel.
4. I am quick to spot when someone in a group is feeling awkward or uncomfortable.
5. Other people tell me I am good at understanding how they are feeling and what they are thinking.
6. I can easily tell if someone else is interested or bored with what I am saying.
7. I can sense if I am intruding, even if the other person doesn't tell me.
8. I can tune into how someone else feels rapidly and intuitively.
9. I can easily work out what another person might want to ta lk about.
10. I can tell if someone is masking their true emotion.
11. I am good at predicting what someone will do.
12. I really enjoy caring for other people.
13. It is hard for me to see why some things upset people so much.
14. I find it easy to put myself in somebody else's shoes
15. If I say something that someone else is offended by, I think that that's their problem, not m ine.
16. I can't a lways see why someone should have felt offended by a remark.
17. Seeing people cry doesn't really upset me.
18. I get upset if I see people suffering on news programmes
19. Friends usua lly ta lk to me about their problems as they say that I am very understanding.
20. Other people often say that I am insensitive, though I donʼt always see why.
21. I usually stay emotionally detached when watching a film.
22. I tend to get emotionally involved with a friend's problems.
23. I find it difficult to explain to others things that understand easily when they don't understand it the first time.
24. I find it hard to know what to do in a social situation.
25. Friendships and relationships are just too difficult, so I tend not to bother with them.
26. I often find it difficult to judge if something is rude or polite
27. I donʼt tend to find soc ia l situations confusing.
28. I don't consciously work out the rules of social situations.
29. People often tell me that I went too far in driv ing my point home in a discussion
30. It doesn't bother me too much if I am late meeting a friend
31. In a conversation, I tend to focus on my own thoughts rather than on what my listener m ight be thinking.
32. When I was a child, I enjoyed cutting up worms to see what would happen.
33. If anyone asked me if I liked their ha ircut, I would reply truthfully, even if I didn't like it.
34. I am very blunt, which some people take to be rudeness, even though this is unintentional.
35. When I ta lk to people, I tend to ta lk about their experiences rather than my own.
36. It upsets me to see an animal in pain.
37. I am able to make dec isions without being influenced by people's feelings.
38. People sometimes tell me that I have gone too far with teasing.
39. If I see a stranger in a group, I think that it is up to them to make an effort to join in.
40. I can usually appreciate the other person's viewpoint, even if I don't agree with it.