Updated January 1, 2009
The Swedish Empathy Center recommends the following articles in Journal of Research in Personality:
Brehm, S. S., & Aderman, D. (1977). On the relationship between empathy and the actor versus observer hypothesis. Journal of Research in Personality, 11, 340-346.
Davis, M. H., & Franzoi, S. L. (1991). Stability and change in adolescent self-consciousness and empathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 25, 70-87.
Flury, J. M., Ickes, W., & Schweinle, W. (2008). The borderline empathy effect: Do high BPD individuals have greater empathic ability? or are they just more difficult to "read?". Journal of Research in Personality, 42(2), 312-332.
Galper, R. (1976). Turning observers into actors: Differential causal attribution as a function of empathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 10, 328-335.
Marks, E. L., Penner, L. A., & Stone, A. V. (1982). Helping as a function of empathic responses and sociopathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 16, 1-20.