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This page links to numerous online personality tests, with an emphasis on free, professional tests that provide feedback.

Sheldon Test
This test provides scores on Sheldon's psychological types: viscerotonia, somatotonia, and cerebrotonia. By C. George Boeree.

Type A Personality Test for Teens
"Do you know how to relax? Are you competitive? Are you so ambitious that you have to be the best at everything you do? Find out how balanced you are with the new Type A Personality Test for teens and students.... After finishing the test, you will receive a detailed, personalized interpretation of your score that includes diagrams, information on the test topic and tips." By Queendom.com.

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Attachment Style Questionnaire
"The statements below concern how you feel in emotionally intimate relationships. We are interested in how you generally experience relationships, not just in what is happening in a current relationship.... When you have answered all the questions, the web page will determine your attachment style." By R. Chris Fraley.

Personality, Relationships, and Perception
This test "is designed to illustrate some of the associations between your personality, your relationships, and cognitive processes.... When you are finished, the program will summarize your responses for you and provide you with the opportunity to view the aggregated data provided by others. This demonstration takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete." By R. Chris Fraley.

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Anxiety Test
After finishing this 10-item test, "you will receive a detailed, personalized interpretation of your score that includes diagrams, information on the test topic and tips." By Queendom.com.

ODST: Online Depression Screening Test
"ODST is a preliminary screening test for depressive symptoms that does not replace in any way a formal psychiatric evaluation. It is designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of mild to moderate depressive symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist." By New York University Department of Psychiatry.

OSA: Online Screening for Anxiety
"OSA is a preliminary screening test for anxiety symptoms that does not replace in any way a formal psychiatric evaluation. It is designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of mild to moderate anxiety symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist." By New York University Department of Psychiatry.

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Sibling and Twin Relationships Survey
"You will be asked to answer a variety of questionnaires about your relationships with your siblings and other family members. When you are finished, the program will analyze your responses and provide you with detailed feedback on your responses and the responses of others. This study is fairly intensive and takes approximately 60 minutes to complete." By R. Chris Fraley.

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Positive Reinforcement: A Self-Instructional Exercise
"The purpose of this exercise is to teach the concept of positive reinforcement and also to provide an idea of the kind of self-instructional exercises used in many Athabasca University course packages.... In the first part of this exercise, the concept of positive reinforcement is defined and illustrated in six example/nonexample pairs. In an example/nonexample pair, an example of a concept is slightly altered to form a nonexample; this enables the student to tell the difference between examples and nonexamples that have similar content. In the second part of this exercise, students classify 14 examples and nonexamples and are given feedback about their performance." By Athabasca University Centre for Psychology.

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Alienation Test
This 30-item test provides scores on meaninglessness, cultural estrangement, powerlessness, normlessness, estrangement from work, and social isolation. By C. George Boeree.

Independence/Interdependence Questionnaire
"The Shyness Institute is conducting research on social fitness and cultural orientation. This questionnaire has 31 questions." Results are provided. By Philip G. Zimbardo.

Morality Test
"...assesses your moral attitudes, particularly as they relate to your religious and cultural background. By 'moral' we mean those aspects of thought and behavior that relate to commonly accepted notions of right and wrong, and to selfish and unselfish actions. One need not be religious to be 'moral,' although religions do tend to espouse moral codes of behavior.... You will receive feedback about your moral attitudes, relative to those of other respondents to this survey. You will also receive feedback about your personality, relative to other survey respondents." By Frank J. Sulloway and Michael Shermer.

Personality and Self Game
"In this study we will assess various aspects of your personality. Next, we will ask you to play a game in which you will have to click on moving targets as quickly as possible. Finally, we will assess aspects of your personality again. At the end of the study, you will receive customized feedback about your responses and what those responses mean." Mark W. Baldwin.

Self-Monitoring Personality Quiz: Do You Censor What You Say?
"Take this personality test to find out how much you change your personality in different contexts. Low self monitors tend to use inner beliefs and values in deciding how to behave, while high self monitors tend to monitor their surroundings and change their behavior to fit in."

Shyness Questionnaire
"The Shyness Institute is conducting a survey on shyness. This questionnaire has 35 questions." Results are provided. By Philip G. Zimbardo.

Social Interaction and Technology Use Questionnaire
"Welcome to the Shyness Institute's study on perceptions of technology and social interaction. To help us with our research, we would like you to answer some questions about how (and how much) you use technology and how you perceive social situations.... This questionnaire will take about 15 minutes to complete." By Philip G. Zimbardo.

Survey on Life Regrets
"This is a survey about the regrets people have in life. A regret involves feeling bad about something you wish you had done differently.... This survey takes approximately 5 to 8 minutes to complete. When you are finished, the web page will automatically summarize the responses of other anonymous participants for you." By Neal J. Roese.

Values in Action Strengths Scale
"We are developing a questionnaire to measure a person's strengths.... There are 471 questions, which will take 40-50 minutes to complete and must be done in a single session. When you finish them, you will receive valuable feedback on your strengths." By Christopher Peterson and Martin E. P. Seligman.

Values Test
This 24-item test "is designed to provide insight into Gordon Allport's theory." Scores are provided on political, esthetic, economic, religious, theoretical, and social values. By C. George Boeree.

WebGrid III
"...an implementation for the World Wide Web of George Kelly's repertory grid technique for building conceptual models based on his Personal Construct Psychology (PCP). WebGrid asks you to define a domain of interest, a context or purpose, and some elements or entities that are part of the domain and relevant to your purpose. It then elicits constructs from you which establish how you distinguish the elements in your domain in ways that are relevant to your purpose." By Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw.

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SAPA Project Personality Test

"The SAPA Project is a collaborative data collection tool for assessing psychological constructs across multiple dimensions of personality. These dimensions currently include temperament, cognitive abilities, and interests because research suggests that these three dimensions cover a large percentage of the variability among people without too much redundacy. Other broad dimensions like motivation and character may be included later depending on how much incremental benefit they provide in terms of predicting outcomes. After taking the survey linked to this page, you will get feedback about your personality relative to other people of your age and gender. This feedback is based on "Big Five" and "Big Six" research findings and also provides commentary using the more recently developed personality aspects. The feedback will be customized to your responses using the scores of approximately 275,000 people who have participated so far. From start to finish, the full test takes most people about 20 minutes (you can quit in the middle if you want but the feedback won't be as accurate). The test is entirely free and anonymous (no cookies, no tracking, etc.)." By David M. Condon

"Big 5" Personality Test
"This inventory will compare your answers to those of others and give you an estimate of your level on each of five broad personality domains ('the big 5'). These domains represent normal differences in personality that are probably known by your friends and colleagues. This inventory will not reveal any secret information about you, nor will it assess any serious psychological problems.... you will be asked to indicate your level of agreement to about 120 statements.... When you submit your answers, you will be given a page that shows the best interpretation of your responses and how your results compare to others." By William Revelle.

Online Personality and Social Experiment
"Signal Match Inc is conducting research on online social interactions. For this purpose we are seeking participants for an online experiment. The experiment involves a time commitment for at least three months, during which the participants will interact with other users in a closed online social setting. All of the collected data will be kept confidential and anonymous. Participants will be compensated by music gift certificates and free company logo apparelÑplus the opportunity to help science at the same time. To apply for participation, go to: http://www.signalpatterns.com. If you are selected to participate, you will be notified via email within 4 weeks. Thank you for considering this unique opportunity."

Big Five Minitest
Based on responses to 40 adjectives, this questionnaire provides scores on the Big Five dimensions of personality--excellent for teaching students about the Big Five! By C. George Boeree.

Big Five Personality Test
"This test measures what many psychologists consider to be the five fundamental dimensions of personality. As you are rating yourself, you are encouraged to rate another person. By rating someone else you will tend to receive a more accurate assessment of your own personality. Also, you will be given a personality profile for the person you rate, which will allow you to compare yourself to this person on each of five basic personality dimensions. Try to rate someone whom you know well, such as a close friend, coworker, spouse, or other family member." By Samuel D. Gosling.

Find Your Star Wars Twin
"Using a standard personality psychology test, this website can tell you which traits you have in common with characters from the Star Wars movies." By Frank J. Sulloway.

Five-Factor Personality Test
"...this online personality test... is based on an International Personality Item Pool representation of the Five Factor Model of personality. The Five Factor Model (also known as the 'Big 5') is based on the idea that five main dimensions are necessary and sufficient for broadly describing human personality. The next page contains the 41 items of the test and some additional questions. Once you have filled these in and submitted the test for scoring, you will be told your scores on these five basic dimensions and given some information about what they mean." If you have already taken this test before, the authors request that that you use the retest version. By Tom Buchanan, Lewis R. Goldberg, and John A. Johnson.

IPIP Representation of the NEO-PI-R
This 300-item personality questionnaire provides detailed feedback and scores on the dimensions of the five-factor model and their specific facets. A 120-item short form, although available, can be expected to be less reliable than the long form. By John A. Johnson.

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12-Minute IQ Test
"...is a multiple choice timed test.... It consists of 50 questions assessing your verbal, math and spatial reasoning and problem solving skills." By the International High IQ Society.

Bricks
"...is a free logic game with blocks." By Andreas Rottler.

Culture-Fair IQ Test
"...is an un-timed, 20-question test designed to test IQ while minimizing cultural and educational biases." By the International High IQ Society.

Daily IQ Test
"This quiz is designed more as a learning experience than as a statistically valid I.Q. exam. No quiz of just 16 questions will have a lot of accuracy. But results averaged over several days will yield a more valid I.Q. result." By ZDaily.com.

Densa
"How dumb are you? Take this quiz, if you dare, and see!" Answers are provided. By Pressanykey.com.

Detailed IQ Test
"Our IQ Test and scoring system was uniquely designed to provide the most accurate results available in an online intelligence test.... The test consists of 32 questions and should take an average of 12 minutes to complete. Answers are either True or False." By Testcafe.com.

IQ Quizzes
Weekly IQ quizzes with large archive. By Mensa International.

IQ Test
Thirty-eight un-timed questions "require you to analyse alphanumeric patterns built according to certain rules." By AllTheTests.com.

IQTest.com: Smarter Than You Think
"Our original IQ test is the most scientifically valid IQ test available on the web today. Previously offered only to corporations, schools, and in certified professional applications, it is now available to you. In addition to measuring your general IQ, our exclusive test assesses your performance in 13 different areas of intelligence, revealing your key cognizant strengths and weaknesses." By IQTest.com.

Mensa Workout
"This quiz is provided for entertainment purposes only; it is not an IQ test.... Answers to the questions and discussion of the answers are provided at the time you submit your answers." By Mensa International.

Rottus' Genius IQ Test
"...comprises more than 50 different puzzles. Most of them are rather difficult." Answers are provided. By Andreas Rottler.

Rottus' Sequence Test
"...is a selfscoring culture fair IQ test which consists of 25 logical sequences.... After submitting your answers you will get your score and an estimation of your IQ. Additionally the solutions (and your answers) are listed." By Andreas Rottler.

Rozie's Test No. 1
A 20-question IQ-type test with statistics and answers provided. By Rozies.com.

Test for Exceptional Intelligence
"We have designed this high-ceiling test to be so challenging that gifted individuals will get average scores, and only geniuses will be able to achieve the highest scores." By the International High IQ Society.

Test Your IQ
A 60-item IQ-type test with answers provided. By Lars Sondergaard.

Traditional Test
"This test is for entertainment purposes only. It does not represent an actual evaluation of your Intelligence Quotient." Number of correct responses is provided. By APSoft.com.

Ultimate IQ Test
"...measures vocabulary, verbal reasoning, mathematical processing and reasoning (logic), and visual-spatial (perception-perspective) skills." By the International High IQ Society.

Verbal IQ Test
"...is an un-timed test with 25 questions" assessing ability in American English. By the International High IQ Society.

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Assertiveness Test
"Are you a human doormat? Do you say 'yes' when you mean 'no'? Do you keep your opinions to yourself for fear of upsetting or confronting others? Find out if you stand up for yourself as much as you should with the Assertiveness Test.... you will receive a detailed, personalized interpretation of your score that includes diagrams, information on the test topic and tips." By Queendom.com.

Hostility Test
"Do you sometimes think, feel, or act aggressively? Do people ever tell you to lighten up or to take things less seriously? If so, you might have some hostile tendencies that can damage not only your professional and personal relationships, but also your health!... Once you have finished the test, you will receive a detailed, personalized interpretation of your score, as well as further information on the test topic." By Queendom.com.

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"Know Your Own Personality" Questionnaire
"...based on tried and tested principles, the result of research by renowned Professor of human psychology, Hans Eysenck, and described in his popular book 'Know Your Own Personality' published first in 1972. He had a clear understanding of how introversion and extraversion, combined with the degree of emotional stability and self-determinism, determine the personality traits that result in much of an individual's behaviour." By Peter Shepherd.

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PDS: Online Screening for Personality Disorders
"PDS is a screening test that is designed to give a preliminary indication of certain personality traits that might be associated with a personality disorder. It can not replace an evaluation by a psychiatrist to determine the presence or absence of a personality disorder." By New York University Department of Psychiatry.

Personality Disorder Test
"This test... is meant to help determine whether or not you have a personality disorder. It is not meant to be used as a diagnostic tool, but rather as a tool to give you insight into a potential disorder that may be having a negative impact on your life." By 4degreez.com.

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Fromm's Orientations Test
This 48-item test "is presented only to give you a better sense of [Erich] Fromm's orientations." Scores are provided on receptive, exploitative, hoarding, marketing, and productive orientations. By C. George Boeree.

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SDS: Online Sexual Disorders Screening for Men
"SDS is a preliminary screening test for sexual symptoms that does not replace in any way a formal psychiatric or medical evaluation. It is designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of sexual symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist or physician." By New York University Department of Psychiatry.

SDS: Online Sexual Disorders Screening for Women
"SDS is a preliminary screening test for sexual symptoms that does not replace in any way a formal psychiatric or medical evaluation. It is designed to give a preliminary idea about the presence of sexual symptoms that indicate the need for an evaluation by a psychiatrist or a physician." By New York University Department of Psychiatry.

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