Lemon Juice Introversion Test
Mouth-Watering Lemons?
What does your response to tasting bitter lemon juice suggest about your personality? Most of us will be accustomed to taking personality tests that take the form of questionnaires. In a series of questions, you might be asked how you would respond to a particular situation, or how you tend to feel when a type of event occurs in your life. A less...
Theories Of Personality
7 Theories of Personality
How can human personality be defined? What traits are our personalities composed of, and what genetic or environmental factors cause each individual’s personality to be different? Personality, and the factors that influence it, have been the focus of study since Ancient Greece. Early theories attributed differences in personality to the abundance...
Five-Factor Model Of Personality
Five Factors of Personality
In psychology, five broad dimensions (the ‘Big Five’) are commonly used in the research and study of personality. Since the late 20th Century, these factors have been used to measure, and develop a better understanding of, individual differences in personality. These five factors include: Openness to...
Neuroticism: A 'Big Five' Personality Factor
Neuroticism: A 'Big Five' Personality Factor
Neuroticism is one of the ‘Big Five’ factors in the study of personality in psychology. It is measured on a continuum, ranging from emotional stability (low neuroticism) to emotional instability (high neuroticism). A neurotic personality is characterised by persistent, often disproportionate, worrying and anxiety. A person may strive to be a...
Eysenck's PEN Model Of Personality
Eyesenck's PEN Model of Personality
The PEN model is a biological theory of personality developed by influential psychologist Hans Eysenck (1916-1997). The model focusses on three broad personality factors: psychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism (PEN). Eysenck believed that biological factors, including cortical arousal and hormone levels, along with environmental factors, such as...
Openness To Experience Personality Trait
Openness to Experience
Openness to experience is one of the ‘Big Five’ factors and is used to study and measure individual differences in personality. A person with a high level of openness to experience will often enjoy venturing beyond his or her comfort zone. They seek out new, unconventional and unfamiliar experiences, travelling to new destinations, embracing...
Personality Traits Predict Users' Facebook Status Updates - Study
Predicting Your Status Updates
Your favorite subjects for Facebook status updates reveal more about your personality than may intend, according to psychologists. From posting a photo of yourself with your partner, to sharing your daily gym exercise routine, status topics have been found to be linked to key personality traits. A recent study has found that Facebook users with different...
Conscientiousness: A 'Big Five' Personality Trait
Conscientiousness and Personality
Conscientiousness is the personality trait of a person who shows an awareness of the impact that their own behavior has on those around them. Conscientious people are generally more goal-oriented in their motives, ambitious in their academic efforts and at work, and feel more comfortable when they are well-prepared and organized. The trait is one of the...
Study Reveals Differences In Personality Traits Across Great Britain
How Personality Traits Differ Across Regions
Differences in personality traits have long been associated with the residents of regions across individual countries. In the U.S., a series of studies identified personality differences between individual states and across wider geographical regions, such as the Southern states. A study published in the journal PLoS One has identified similar personalities...
Authoritarian Personality
Are You Authoritarian?
People can be divided into two distinct classes - the weak and the strong. Some people are born with the urge to jump from high places. No weakness or difficulty can hold us back if we have enough willpower. Most of our social problems would be solved if we could somehow get rid of the immoral, crooked and feeble-minded...
Agreeableness
The Agreeable Personality
Agreeableness is one of the ‘big five’ personality factors or traits which has for decades been the subject of psychology research. A person who is highly agreeable will exhibit pro-social forms of behavior. They are more sociable, aim to please other people and are willing to help those in need. As a result, agreeable people tend to work well...
Five Factor Test
Five Factor Test
The key five traits of human personality, similar to the "Big Five" that Goldberg researched in 1993, are: Openness to Experience Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Take the...
Are You Neurotic? Test
Are You Neurotic? Test
Find out if you're neurotic with our free test.
Openness To Experience Test
Openness to Experience Test
Are you a daredevil or a hermit? Find out with this online test.
Handedness
Handedness
What makes us left handed? Evolution from war, brain hemispheres or something else.
Famous Left Handers
Famous Left Handers
Information on famous left handed people.
Are You An Extravert? Test
Are You An Extravert? Test
How extraverted are you? Find out with this online test.
Personality Types (Friedman & Rosenman)
Personality Types (Friedman & Rosenman)
The personality types proposed by cardiologists Friedman & Rosenman distinguish between groups people based on the way in which they cope with stress: Personality Type Characteristics of This Type Type A Type A people are highly motivated, driven to achieve high, sometimes unrealistic, goals, and often...
Personality Type Test
Personality Type Test
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development is based on childhood events and labelled personality types such as analy retentive and oral . Find out your personality type by answering these questions (please note that results require membership, available here): When meeting your partner's parents for the first...
Authority
Authority
In the conservative 1950s, The Authoritarian Personality was soundly debunked as poor science. Among the charges leveled against the book and its authors were that they had not taken into consideration racial, social and economic differences, which would have skewed the test results, and that the questions themselves were unfairly weighted to only allow...
Conscientiousness Test
Conscientiousness Test
How conscientious are you? Test yourself.
How Agreeable Are You?
How Agreeable Are You?
How agreeable are you? Take the online test.
'Big Five' Personality Traits Affect Transportation Effects - Study
Influenced by Stories?
Do you ever find yourself engrossed by tales of fantasy? Or do you find that science-fiction storylines are a little too far fetched to be believable? Whether you are easily engaged by narratives in films, TV shows and novels depends on your personality traits. If have difficulty believing some storylines, your 'Big Five' personality traits may...
Maximizer Vs Satisficer Quiz
Are you a Maximizer or a Satisficer?
Discover your approach to decision-making with the maximizer vs satisficer quiz.
How Your Speech Reveals Your Political Leanings
Language Reveals Your Politics
Can the way you construct sentences reveal your political philosophy? According to researchers, the way in which people use grammar in speech and in writing may be linked to their political persuasion. Psychologists observed that people of a conservative persuasion tend to take comfort in stability, and proposed that linguistically, nouns fulfill this...
