Empathy Scale The Empathy Scale was developed by Baron-Cohen et al (2004) to measure empathy in normal individuals. The self-assessment type scale can be applied in clinical and non-clinical groups. The Empathy Scale consists of a total of 60 questions, including 40 items to measure empathy and 20 distractors to prevent the person from focusing on the purpose of the test. The respondent marks the questions among 4 options with "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" responses at both ends. Only the 40 questions measuring empathy are taken into account in scoring. Empathy questions: (1- 4 - 6- 8- 10 - 11 - 12 - 14 - 15 - 18 - 19 - 21 - 22 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 32 - 34 - 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39 - 41 - 42 - 43 - 44 - 46 - 48 - 49 - 50 - 52 - 54 - 55 - 57 - 58 - 59 - 60) . Items other than these are also distractors. The 2 least empathetic responses are given 0 points, the most empathetic 2 points, the second most empathetic 1 point. The total score that can be obtained from the scale varies between 0 and 80. In some of the items "strongly agree" and in others "strongly disagree" indicates an empathetic response. The 2 least empathetic responses are given 0 points, the most empathetic response is given 2 points and the second most empathetic response is given 1 point. 22 of the 40 empathy questions were selected by Wakabayashi et al (2006) for the short form of the scale by factor analysis (short form items: 1-6-8-14-15-19-21-22-25-26-29-35-36-41-43-44-48-52- 54-55-58-59). Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright (2004), who developed the scale originally named Empathy Quotient, evaluated two groups as individuals diagnosed with Asperger's Disorder/High Functioning Autism and a control group in their study. In the study, test-retest reliability was 0.97 and internal consistency coefficient was 0.92. Baron-Cohen et al (2005) recommended scores of 30 and below to make a clinical diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder in adults. The reliability and preliminary validity of the Turkish version of the scale in university students was conducted by Bora and Baysan.(2009) and the internal consistency of the scale was found to be quite high (α= 0.84). The Guttman split-half coefficient obtained with the split half method was found to be 0.78. With this method, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was found to be 0.75 for the first half of the scale and 0.74 for the second half. The test-retest correlation of the scale was found to be 0.76. In this study, Cronbach's alpha coefficient for internal consistency was found to be 0.83. There is no study determining the cut-off score for this scale in the Turkish sample. Evidence for the reliability and validity of the Empathy Scale shows that the scale has good internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The Empathy Scale has been shown to differentiate Asperger's Disorder from controls (Wakabayashi et al 2007). It was reported that the Empathy Scale showed an inverse relationship with the Autism Scale (Baron-Cohen et al 2004).