Development of short forms of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-Short) and the Systemizing Quotient (SQ-Short)

Wakabayashi, Akio; Baron‐Cohen, Simon; Wheelwright, Sally; Goldenfeld, Nigel; Delaney, Joe; Fine, Debra; Smith, Richard J.; Weil, Leonora G

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.017

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“…Rather, we find that receiving information about the hardships faced by immigrants actually increased permissiveness even in the presence of threatening media information about immigrants. 52 Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright 2004;Wakabayashi et al 2006. 53 Brader, Valentino, and Suhay 2008;Sniderman, Hagendoorn, and Prior 2004;Stephan et al 2005. One thing to note from the figure is that the effect of our humanitarian treatment, directionality aside, is roughly 20 percent larger than that of our threat treatment.…”

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Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration

Newman¹,

Hartman²,

Lown³

et al. 2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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The bulk of the public opinion research on immigration identifies the factors leading to opposition to immigration. In contrast, we focus on a previously unexplored factor yielding support for immigration: humanitarianism. Relying upon secondary analysis of national public opinion survey data and an original survey experiment, we demonstrate that humanitarian concern significantly decreases support for restrictive immigration policy. Results from our survey experiment demonstrate that in an information environment evoking both threat and countervailing humanitarian concern regarding immigration, the latter can and does override the former. Last, our results point to the importance of individual differences in empathy in moderating the effects of both threat and humanitarian inducements.

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Section: Results From the Survey-embedded Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration

Newman¹,

Hartman²,

Lown³

et al. 2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…In the current study, the Cronbach alpha for the total AQ score was 0.73. [Wakabayashi et al, 2006])…”

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Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Mansour

Rozenblat

Fuller‐Tyszkiewicz

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research

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“…Participants completed the SQ-Short and EQ-Short scales for assessing systemizing (propensity to analyze or construct systems) and empathizing (ability to read others' mental states), respectively (Wakabayashi et al 2006;Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright 2004;Baron-Cohen et al 2003). The SQ-Short comprises 25 questions such as BI am fascinated by how machines work^, and the EQ-Short comprises 22 questions such as BI can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation^to which participants answer whether they agree or disagree.…”

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“…We also measured the empathizing quotient (Wakabayashi et al 2006) and the Breading the mind in the eyes^test (Baron-Cohen et al 2001), both of which measure psychological traits related to care giving and prosociality, and render lower scores in males and in autistic individuals of either sex Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright 2004;Auyeung et al 2009aAuyeung et al , b, 2012Chapman et al 2006;Buss and Perry 1992). On the one hand, if sex differences in empathy and prosociality depend in part on pubertal androgens, then one might predict that earlier puberty would relate to more masculine scores on these tests.…”

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Sexual Selection and Life History: Earlier Recalled Puberty Predicts Men’s Phenotypic Masculinization

Doll

Cárdenas

Burriss

et al. 2015

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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In some laboratory rodents, males' brains and behavior become less sensitive to the organizing effects of androgens across the time window surrounding puberty. Later puberty in human males has also been associated with less male-typical psychology and behavior, such as lower performance on mental rotation tasks and lower risk of substance abuse and delinquency. Here, we propose that life history (LH) theory provides a useful theoretical framework for understanding such relationships between pubertal timing and phenotypic masculinization. Because a faster male LH strategy emphasizes mating over parenting, earlier puberty may lead more generally to greater masculinization of traits that increase in sexual dimorphism at puberty and function in mating competition. In other words, we suggest that decreasing sensitivity to androgens represents a proximate mechanism that facilitates the development of mating-related adaptations in men with fast LH strategies. We tested this hypothesis in 153 men. Consistent with our hypothesis, earlier recalled pubertal timing predicted greater adult male body mass index, facial dominance, biceps circumference, and, to a lesser degree, systemizing and mental rotation ability. Some sexually dimorphic traits that were unrelated to pubertal timing in our data may have been less relevant to our male ancestors' mating success and hence to a fast LH strategy.

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Development of short forms of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-Short) and the Systemizing Quotient (SQ-Short)

Cited by 321 publications

References 8 publications

Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration

Easing the Heavy Hand: Humanitarian Concern, Empathy, and Opinion on Immigration

Emotions mediate the relationship between autistic traits and disordered eating: A new autistic-emotional model for eating pathology

Sexual Selection and Life History: Earlier Recalled Puberty Predicts Men’s Phenotypic Masculinization

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