A growing body of research suggests that empathy predicts important work outcomes, yet limitations in existing measures to assess empathy have been noted. Extending past work on the assessment of empathy, this study introduces a newly developed set of emotion-eliciting film clips that can be used to assess both cognitive (emotion perception) and affective (emotional congruence and sympathy) facets of empathy in vivo. Using the relived emotions paradigm, film protagonists were instructed to think aloud about an autobiographical, emotional event from working life and relive their emotions while being videotaped. Subsequently, protagonists were asked to provide self-reports of the intensity of their emotions during retelling their event. In a first study with 128 employees, who watched the film clips and rated their own as well as the protagonists’ emotions, we found that the film clips are effective in eliciting moderate levels of emotions as well as sympathy in the test taker and can be used to calculate reliable convergence scores of emotion perception and emotional congruence. Using a selected subset of six film clips, a second two-wave study with 99 employees revealed that all facet-specific measures of empathy had moderate-to-high internal consistencies and test–retest reliabilities, and correlated in expected ways with other self-report and test-based empathy tests, cognition, and demographic variables. With these films, we expand the choice of testing materials for empathy in organizational research to cover a larger array of research questions.

越来越多的研究表明，同理心可以预测重要的工作成果，但已经注意到现有评估同理心的措施存在局限性。扩展过去关于移情评估的工作，本研究介绍了一组新开发的引发情绪的电影剪辑，可用于评估体内移情的认知（情感感知）和情感（情感一致性和同情）方面。使用重温情感范式，电影主角被要求大声思考工作​​生活中的自传情感事件，并在被录像时重温他们的情感。随后，主角被要求在复述他们的事件时提供他们情绪强度的自我报告。在对 128 名员工进行的第一项研究中，看过电影片段并对自己和主角的情绪进行评分后，我们发现电影片段能有效地引起应试者的适度情绪和同情，并且可以用来计算可靠的情绪收敛分数感知和情感上的一致性。使用六个电影剪辑的选定子集，对 99 名员工进行的第二次两波研究表明，所有特定方面的移情测量都具有中到高的内部一致性和重测信度，并以预期的方式与其他自我-报告和基于测试的移情测试、认知和人口统计变量。通过这些影片，我们扩大了组织研究中同理心测试材料的选择范围，以涵盖更广泛的研究问题。我们发现，电影剪辑能有效地激发考生的适度情绪和同情，并可用于计算情绪感知和情绪一致性的可靠收敛分数。使用六个电影剪辑的选定子集，对 99 名员工进行的第二次两波研究表明，所有特定方面的移情测量都具有中到高的内部一致性和重测信度，并以预期的方式与其他自我-报告和基于测试的移情测试、认知和人口统计变量。通过这些影片，我们扩大了组织研究中同理心测试材料的选择范围，以涵盖更广泛的研究问题。我们发现，电影剪辑能有效地激发考生的适度情绪和同情，并可用于计算情绪感知和情绪一致性的可靠收敛分数。使用六个电影剪辑的选定子集，对 99 名员工进行的第二次两波研究表明，所有特定方面的移情测量都具有中到高的内部一致性和重测信度，并以预期的方式与其他自我-报告和基于测试的移情测试、认知和人口统计变量。通过这些影片，我们扩大了组织研究中同理心测试材料的选择范围，以涵盖更广泛的研究问题。