Affective, sensory and empathic sharing of another's pain: The Empathy for Pain Scale

Through two studies, we introduce and validate the Empathy for Pain Scale (EPS), which characterizes the phenomenology of empathy for pain, including the vicarious experience of pain when seeing others in pain.

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