Personality · Empathy Battery

Interpersonal Reactivity Index Battery

Davis’s four-subscale empathy instrument as one Battery: Perspective-Taking, Empathic Concern, Personal Distress, and Fantasy. Twenty-eight items, four scores 7–35 each — no total IRI score.

Free to take · unlock scores & PDF $15 28 items Est. 4 min 4 scales

What’s in this Battery

Composes the four existing IRI subscale measures into a single Battery take and a single report unlock. Cute subscale titles on the catalog are flavor; the product name keeps Battery.

Perspective-Taking
7 items

Tendency to spontaneously adopt others’ psychological viewpoints.

Empathic Concern
7 items

Other-oriented sympathy and concern for people in difficulty.

Personal Distress
7 items

Self-focused anxiety when witnessing others in need.

Fantasy
7 items

Imaginative transposition into fictional characters and stories.

Scoring & report

Each subscale is summed separately on the 1–5 anchors (raw 7–35). There is no total IRI score. College-student norms use Davis (1983) with the published +7 mean shift for 1–5 coding.

Free to take. Unlock the completed Battery report for $15 (repeats $11). One Battery SKU — not separate unlocks per subscale.

Source

Davis, M. H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(1), 113–126.