Take a Personality Test
This website provides a collection of interactive personality tests with detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn more about personality assessment. These tests range from very serious and widely used scientific instruments to popular psychology and self-produced quizzes. A special focus is given to the strengths, weaknesses, and validity of the various systems.
Recommended Tests
- Big Five Personality Test
- The general consensus in academic psychology is that there are five fundamental personality traits. This model is assumed in most personality research and is the basis of many of the most well-regarded tests. This test uses public domain scales from the International Personality Item Pool.
- Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz
- This tool will compare your answers to a database of 2,000 fictional characters. It uses techniques from recommendation engines to match you to characters you will agree are similar. Also available as a peer report version and a version for couples.
Other Tests
- Psychometric Media Recommendation Engine
- Get recommendations for TV, movies, and books based on personality questions.
- Fisher Temperament Inventory
- Categorizes people into one of four temperaments, each associated with specific neuro-chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, estrogen).
- Inventory of Phonetic Associations (Experimental)
- Measures how strongly you show the typical bias for associating sounds with meanings, a pattern consistent across cultures.
- Firstborn Personality Scale
- Designed to produce the maximum possible difference between scores of first-born and later-born children, highlighting how small this effect actually is.
- Analog to Multiple Broadband Inventories
- Computes scores for 8 different well-regarded personality tests from just one bank of items.
- Multidimensional Introversion-Extraversion Scales
- Breaks down the trait of introversion-extraversion into several different, though related, traits.
- Open Extended Jungian Type Scales
- A free and open-source measure of the four dichotomies (e.g., Introversion/Extraversion) used in systems like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
- OSPP Enneagram of Personality Scales
- A measure of the Enneagram of Personality, a system of nine types, developed to reflect the average idea of what each type is among online enthusiasts.
- Short Dark Triad
- A single short test to measure three traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
- Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
- The most widely used general-purpose measure of self-esteem in psychological research.
Disclaimer
All of these tests are provided for educational and entertainment uses only. They are not clinically administered, and as such, the results are not suitable for basing important decisions on.
These tests are also not infallible. If a result says something about you that you don't think is true, you are right and it is wrong.