A system and method for determining a level of empathy between two people
includes four sets of questions for each query posed, a first set being
how a first participant feels about a topic, a second set being how the
first participant thinks a second participant would answer the same
question, a third set being how the second participant feels about the
topic, and a fourth set being how the second participant thinks the first
participant will answer the same question. A "weighted" numerical range
of possible answer selections are provided for each question from each
set. The first set is compared with the fourth set, the second set is
compared with the third set to determine an empathy index for each query
for each of the participants. The process is repeated for a plurality of
questions that are averaged to also provide an overall empathy index and
also various group indices.