Vývoj metody pro posouzení sociální kognice
Developing a method for assessment of social cognition

Author(s): Kristína Czekóová, Zuzana Pokorná, Beáta Špiláková
Subject(s): Social psychology and group interaction, Cognitive Psychology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Multifaceted Empathy Test; cognitive empathy; affective empathy; validity; reliability;
Summary/Abstract: Conducting ourselves accordingly in varying social situations demands sophisticated socio-cognitive capacities. Developing our understanding of such faculties demands tools that allow us to delineate them into their constituent social and emotional components. This is true particularly of empathy, believed to comprise a cognitive and affective component. The Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET) is used increasingly to investigate empathic awareness and expression. It is a picture-based measure designed to measure the dissociable cognitive and affective components of empathy independently. Currently, however, there exists no formal validation of the MET in the Czech Republic. To address this gap, this presentation describes the process behind stimulus selection, item development, and validation according to the subjective evaluations of Czech and Slovak sample. We believe that the resulting stimulus set will prove useful for future socio-cognitive and -emotion research.

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