HES (Hogan) 1969

Hogan, R. (1969). Development of an empathy scale. Journal of Consulting and ClinicalPsychology, 33, 307–316.

Defines empathy as ‘‘the intellectual or imaginative apprehension of another’s condition or state of mind (Hogan, 1969).’’

64-item scale composed of 31 items selected from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Hathaway & McKinley, 1943), 25 items selected from the California Psychological Inventory (CPI; Gough, 1964) and 8 items created by Hogan and colleagues.

ROBERT PAUL BUTTERS (2010)

"The most frequently used self-report empathy scales are

Hogan Empathy Scale HES (Hogan, 1969),
Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy (Mehrabian & Epstein, 1972), and its more recent version,
Balanced Empathy Emotional Scale (Mehrabian, 1996),
Interpersonal Reaction Index (Davis, 1980),
Basic Empathy Scale (Jolliffe & Farrington (2006b). "