EMPATHIZING – SYSTEMIZING THEORY IN ROMANIAN UNIVERSITY CONTEXT

222 students of Transilvania University of Braov, from Humanities and Sciences faculties, with the average age of 23.07 years (SD = 3.92), out of which 88 (39.6%) males, 134 (6.4%) females, were investigated with four questionnaires destined to measure autism quotient (AQ), empathizing quotient (EQ), systemizing quotient (SQ) and the score for Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). The study objectives were to investigate the relationships between variables, to determine psychometric qualities for some of the four questionnaires that were used in the Romanian university population context, to test the hypothesis of gender and specialisation differences for some variables and to propose a new method to determine the five categories of brain types. The results highlight psychometric qualities that are poorer than the initial ones of some of the used instruments, but they confirm the hypothesis of gender and of specialisation for some of the study variables in accord with data of other studies. The method of determining the five brain types proves to be more operational but congruent and highly correlated with the one that Goldenfeld et al. proposed.