Empathy Quotient (EQ)
Determine your empathy
Empathy is the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to them with an appropriate emotion. It includes both recognising what others feel and being moved by it.
The Empathy Quotient (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004) measures this drive in adults with 40 statements about everyday social situations. Put simply, it shows how easily you tune in to other people and how much you care about how they feel. It is often taken together with the Systemizing Quotient.
On the following pages, you can determine your empathy by responding to 40 statements. This will take about 5 minutes, and you can pause and resume at any time.
The results will be provided immediately after you have responded to all statements on the final page. Please note that the results you receive can only be reliable to the extent that you respond seriously and honestly.
This questionnaire is part of the validation study for the Quantitative Socionics Inventory. In case of any question, please write an e-mail (contact@quantitativesocionics.org) to the research team.
About this test
- Instructions
- Below is a list of statements. Please read each statement very carefully and rate how strongly you agree or disagree with it. There are no right or wrong answers, or trick questions.
- Answer format
- 1–4 (Definitely agree … Definitely disagree)
- Scales
- Empathy Quotient (EQ) · EQ-10 (short form)
- Study
- Your answers are stored anonymously under the same private profile as the Quantitative Socionics Inventory, so that results can be compared across participants. You can pause and resume.
- Credits
- Empathy Quotient (EQ) for adults, © Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004; Lawrence et al., 2004), used for research with acknowledgement. EQ-10: Greenberg, Warrier, Allison, & Baron-Cohen (2018).
- License
- ARC: free for non-commercial research with acknowledgement; not to be modified