IDR-ET

Multidimensional Empathy Test

"The IDRlabs Empathy Test (IDR-ET) was developed by IDRlabs. The IDR-ET is based on the work of Dr. Daniel Goleman and his colleagues, who wrote the book Empathy, and Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, who developed the Empathy Quotient. The IDR-ET is not associated with any specific researchers in the field of personality psychology or any affiliated research institutions.

The test provides feedback such as the following: Empathy Spectrum: Describes the extent and breadth of conditions that are likely to elicit an empathic reaction in a person. People who score highly on this dimension are likely to empathize in a wide variety of situations. Those with lower scores are not necessarily non-empathic, but they may forego empathic responses when listening to stories that involve a breach of conventional morals, or which may remind them of their own situation or life stories so strongly that they feel compelled to offer responses from their own point of view rather than empathetic ones. In other words, Empathy Spectrum represents the range of accounts with which an individual is likely to empathize. It should thus be noted that the Empathy Spectrum does not denote the intensity or magnitude of a person’s empathic responses, as that is designated by Empathy Arousal."