Personality tests, personality psychology, test development, and ongoing personality research.
SimilarMinds.com is a resource for personality tests and personality psychology. All the tests at SimilarMinds.com are developed using scientific measures to help ensure test validity. Statistical measures are used to ensure test questions measure what they are intended to measure.
Some of the tests are experimental/beta versions, but even those tests are made up of pre-tested and validated questions; they just won't be as tuned/refined as a non-beta test. For more test information, click here.
I periodically change the test questions based on my ongoing research or add new tests, so check back and retake the tests on occasion.
The MOTIVES system was developed as a refinement and improvement of the Big Five personality model, the current most proven academic personality model, fixing a significant flaw in the Big Five architecture and adding two additional orthogonal factors.
After completing the MOTIVES system, I looked through years of experimental personality items and found many notable and somewhat orthogonal personality traits that the MOTIVES system did not adequately measure, such as artisticness, minimalism, civic-mindedness, and intellectualness. So I'm currently working on a model that does adequately measure all somewhat orthogonal personality traits (32 currently).
Keep your MOTIVES, Distinct Traits, Big Five, Jung, Enneagram and COMPILER results together. Use the web app in your browser or the iPhone and Android apps to explore your scores, invite friends to rate you, compare results and share with your groups.
View sample group dashboard → Try it without signing in.
Example screens from the web app. Swipe or use the arrows to explore.
Keep MOTIVES, Distinct Traits, Big Five, Jung, Enneagram and COMPILER results in one profile. Expand any row to see your scores and descriptions, or retake a test.
How Others See Me gives you your own MOTIVES results and an invitation for friends to rate you. Compare your scores with their combined impressions and see how much they agree.
Measure 32 Distinct Traits, then use Compare with someone or share your comparison link. See where you resemble each other and explore compatibility scores and saved comparisons.
COMPILER connects your eight-trait type with historical music, movie, TV, book and other preferences. Choose categories, compare distinctive and most-listed entries, or broaden the search by selecting fewer traits.
Choose an individual test card or combine your results. Share an image, share text, download the image, or send a test link. The results card leaves out your private profile link and answers.
Create a group (for the personality test results of your friends, an organization, business, etc.), invite people and choose which test results to share. View all shared results together, sort by trait scores, and compare members with a selected profile or your own customized target scores. Group owners choose who can view the group (only you, a few select members, or every group member).
Personalize your profile with a bio, city, favorite music, movies, TV shows and books. Add what you are working toward, what you do regularly and what interests you now. Search suggestions help you find the right titles and artists.
Enable a public profile link when you want to share it. Each saved test has its own public-profile checkbox, so you choose which results appear. Keep your private profile link to yourself.
Use Google or Apple sign-in, or keep your private profile link as another way to access your account. Export a profile backup and import it when you need to restore a profile.
I'm available as a consultant for custom personality test development or other personality-related projects.
If you are interested in partnering on personality research projects, contact me.
The tests measure the Big Five personality traits. SimilarMinds uses the labels Extroversion, Emotional Stability, Orderliness, Accommodation and Intellect, and the SLOAN letter codes summarize these traits.
The longer Big Five tests here are revised versions of the IPIP tests, where I changed some items that didn't meet statistical muster. IPIP sample sizes were much smaller than those of tests developed here.
Start working on the following two things:
If you are using auto-translate, this causes a problem. Open another tab with a translation website of your choice and translate the questions there while answering them on the original untranslated page.
Don't just open another question page and auto-translate that, because the questions change order randomly every time.
That's addressed here.
Yes, provided you take them directly on the SimilarMinds website.
Yes.
I have a MOTIVES ultra-short-form test and a longer 21-item test. These tests are based on the dominant academic personality model (the Big Five) and my own research.
You can access the MOTIVES paper test here (an answer key is included).
A comprehensive Google Doc on the MOTIVES personality system is also available.
Not without my permission, although you can link to any test without permission. Email your requests or proposals to me.
If you want to use a test for academic research or a school project, the MOTIVES test is available; just email me your proposal.
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