Patent ID: 6029975
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: A61B,A63F

Abstract:
A method for measurement of the emotional distance between two or more preselected individuals in one or more preselected social situations, said method comprising:(a) selecting a description of one or more social situations for presentation in a tangible medium of expression;(b) presenting via a tangible medium of expression said description of said one or more social situations to each of such two or more preselected individuals, and then(c) presenting each of such two or more preselected individuals with a plurality of possible responses to each of said one or more social situations;(d) recording in a tangible medium of expression the actual response provided by each of such two or more preselected individuals to each of said one or more social situations, wherein each actual response to each of said one or more social situations is selected from said plurality of possible responses to each of said one or more social situations, and wherein each actual response is recorded in a preselected behavior type category;(e) comparing said behavior types by measuring the distance, on an ordinal scale including two or more preselected behavior type categories, between any of said two or more preselected behavior type categories into which the answers provided by each of said individuals in actual response to said one or more social situations has been recorded.