Medical Education > Current Research Studies: Empathy > Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Hojat, M., Mangione, S. Nasca, T.J. &. Gonnella, J.S. (2005). Empathy scores in medical school and ratings of empathic behavior 3 years later. Journal of Social Psychology, 145 (6), 663-672.

Hojat, M., Zuckerman, M., & Magee, M., Mangione, S., Nasca, T.J., Vergare, M., & Gonnella, J.S.,. (2005). Empathy in medical students as related to specialty interest, personality, and perceptions of mother and father. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 1205-1215.

Hojat, M. Mangione, S., Kane, G., Gonnella, J.S. (2005). Relationships between scores of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Medical Teacher, 27(7), 625-628.

Hojat, M., Mangione, S., Nasca, T.J., Rattner, S., Erdmann, J.B., Gonnella, J.S., & Magee, M. (2004). An empirical study of decline in empathy in medical school. Medical Education, 38, 934-941.

Fields S.K., Hojat, M., Gonnella, J.S., Mangione, S., Kane, G, & Magee, M. (2004). Comparisons of nurses and physicians on an operational measure of empathy. Evaluation & The Health Professions. 27, 80-94.

Hojat M, Mangione S, Cohen MJM, Gonnella JS, Erdmann JB, Veloski JJ, Magee M. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: development and preliminary psychometric data. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2001; 61(2): 349-365.

Hojat M, Mangione S, Gonnella JS, Nasca T, Veloski JJ, Kane G. Empathy in medical education and patient care. Academic Medicine, 2001; 76(7): 669.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Nasca TJ, Mangione S, Vergare M, Magee M. Physician empathy: definition, measurement, and relationship to gender and specialty. American Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 159: 1563-1569.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Nasca TJ, Mangione S, Veloski JJ, Magee M. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: further psychometric data and differences by gender and specialty at item level, development and preliminary psychometric data. Academic Medicine 2002; 77: S58-S60.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Mangione S, Nasca TJ, Veloski JJ, Erdmann JB, Callahan CA, Magee M. Empathy in medical students as related to academic performance, clinical competence, and gender. Medical Education, 2002; 36: 522-527.

Mangione S, Kane GC, Caruso JW, Gonnella JS, Nasca TJ, Hojat M. Assessment of empathy in different years of internal medicine training. Medical Teacher, 2002; 24: 370-373

Hojat M, Fields SK, Gonnella JS. Empathy: An ND/MD comparison. Nurse Practitioner, 2003; 28: 45-47.

Hojat M, Gonnella JS, Mangione S, Nasca TJ, Magee Mr. Physician empathy in medical education and practice: experience with the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy. Seminars in Integrative Medicine, 2003; 1: 25-41.

Glaser, K., Markham, F.W., Adler, H.M., McManus, P.R., & Hojat, M. (2007). Relationships between scores on the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, patient perceptions of physician empathy and humanistic approaches to patient care: A validity study. Medical Science Monitor, 13, CR291-294.

Kane, G.C., Gotto, J.L., Mangione, S., West, S., & Hojat, M. (2007). Jefferson Scale of Patient's Perceptions of Physician Empathy: Preliminary psychometric data. Croatian Medical Journal. 48, 81-86.