Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are two core components of social understanding. The EmpaToM is a validated social video task that allows for independent manipulation and assessment of the two capacities. First applications revealed that empathy and ToM are dissociable constructs on a neuronal as well as on a behavioral level. As the EmpaToM has been designed for the assessment of social understanding in adults, it has a high degree of complexity and comprises topics that are inadequate for minors. For this reason, we designed a new version of the EmpaToM that is especially suited to measure empathy and ToM in youths. In experiment 1, we successfully validated the EmpaToM-Y on the original EmpaToM in an adult sample (N = 61), revealing a similar pattern of results across tasks and strong correlations of all constructs. As intended, the performance measure for ToM and the control condition of the EmpaToM-Y showed reduced difficulty. In experiment 2, we tested the feasibility of the EmpaToM-Y in a group of teenagers (N = 36). Results indicate a reliable empathy induction and higher demands of ToM questions for adolescents. We provide a promising task for future research targeting inter-individual variability of socio-cognitive and socio-affective capacities as well as their precursors and outcomes in healthy minors and clinical populations.

同理心和心理理论（ToM）是社会理解的两个核心组成部分。EmpaToM 是一项经过验证的社交视频任务，允许独立操作和评估两种能力。第一个应用表明，同理心和 ToM 在神经元和行为水平上都是可分离的结构。由于 EmpaToM 是为评估成年人的社会理解而设计的，因此它具有高度的复杂性，并且包含的​​主题对于未成年人来说是不够的。出于这个原因，我们设计了一个新版本的 EmpaToM，它特别适合测量年轻人的同理心和 ToM。在实验 1 中，我们在成人样本（N= 61），揭示了跨任务的相似结果模式和所有结构的强相关性。正如预期的那样，ToM 的性能测量和 EmpaToM-Y 的控制条件显示出降低的难度。在实验 2 中，我们在一组青少年（ N = 36）中测试了 EmpaToM-Y 的可行性。结果表明可靠的移情诱导和对青少年的 ToM 问题的更高要求。我们为未来的研究提供了一项有前途的任务，该研究针对健康未成年人和临床人群中社会认知和社会情感能力的个体间变异性及其前体和结果。