Gender-Neutral Personality Items

Personality items on which female and male SimilarMinds test takers score about the same on average.

Gender-Neutral Items 149 items

1. 1I am a little superficial.
2. 2I carry the conversation to a higher level.
3. 3I am very unique.
4. 4I am sometimes full of thoughts, ideas, and images in my mind.
5. 5I am not very good at delaying gratification.
6. 6I act according to my conscience.
7. 7I think the world is a dangerous place.
8. 8I wish I understood the world better.
9. 9I can't control my romantic thoughts.
10. 10I can say things beautifully.
11. 11I never fantasize about the best case scenario.
12. 12I am a bit of a snob when it comes to my artistic tastes.
13. 13I go after what I want.
14. 14I am not an extraordinary person.
15. 15I am a good loser.
16. 16I am a social chameleon.
17. 17I am defensive.
18. 18I dislike changes.
19. 19I am easily calmed down by others.
20. 20I believe that planning ahead makes things turn out better.
21. 21I believe that there are universal truths.
22. 22My conscious thought filter is not very good.
23. 23I defend my own beliefs.
24. 24I like the world to reflect me.
25. 25I sabotage myself.
26. 26I would never accept a bribe, even if it were very large.
27. 27I'm very optimistic.
28. 28I tend to be the more interested party at the start of a romantic relationship.
29. 29I am extraverted.
30. 30I am open to new experience.
31. 31I am conscientious.
32. 32My friends are always challenging me to be better.
33. 33My parents were always challenging me to be better growing up.
34. 34I feel entitled to more of everything.
35. 35I would like to be seen driving around in a very expensive car.
36. 36I ask for help.
37. 37I prioritize maximizing my happiness.
38. 38I act very nice/friendly to people but deep down I'm very hateful of others.
39. 39I have a responsibility to challenge my friends to be better.
40. 40I cultivate my enthusiasm.
41. 41I change things.
42. 42I try new things.
43. 43I tend to sacrifice present enjoyment for future gain/reward.
44. 44When I'm unhappy, I make changes to my life.
45. 45I engage in violence/aggression.
46. 46I associate with difficult people.
47. 47I avoid contact with others.
48. 48I focus on conserving energy.
49. 49I sometimes really want to kill people.
50. 50I'm naturally in a state of low stimulation and seek external sources of stimulation, like social interaction, to reach an optimal level of arousal.
51. 51I experience positive emotions frequently.
52. 52I prefer to bounce my ideas off others to refine my thoughts and gain clarity.
53. 53I view myself as an energizer or catalyst in social settings.
54. 54I'm on a very exciting life path but I'm not exactly sure where it's heading.
55. 55I sometimes lie to come off as less appealing.
56. 56I pretend to be less successful than I am.
57. 57I don't want to be romantically attractive to anyone.
58. 58My focus in life is maximizing my energy level.
59. 59I tend to focus on the future.
60. 60Rank matters.
61. 61It's very important that I admire my romantic partner.
62. 62I'm prone to addiction.
63. 63I don't like disturbances to the social order.
64. 64I only care about being liked by my preferred small subculture.
65. 65I'm more focused on my internal thoughts and feelings than the external world.
66. 66Overt religious symbols have no place in public.
67. 67I like to show off.
68. 68I charm therefore I am.
69. 69I care about people liking me just enough for me to live a happy and safe life but no more.
70. 70I feel like I always have to have someone to hook up with (even if I would never date them) to feel normal.
71. 71Attention from the gender I'm attracted to is very important to me.
72. 72I want the highest social esteem possible.
73. 73I have fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
74. 74Each ethnic group should have its own place.
75. 75I like to represent my tribe.
76. 76My self obsession has a lot of upsides.
77. 77If someone hurts my friends I feel like it's an attack on me.
78. 78I probably wouldn't work well with a romantic partner who didn't like my conservative values.
79. 79I despise people who think they are above me.
80. 80I get a huge ego boost from being better than other people.
81. 81I show off therefore I am.
82. 82I respect peoples boundaries.
83. 83I'm a public person.
84. 84I'm very targeted in my social interactions.
85. 85I have ADHD.
86. 86I operate mostly by instinct.
87. 87When it comes to people that dislike me, I tend to scrub them from my life.
88. 88The most important quality in a life partner is someone who shares my love for experimenting.
89. 89I'm ambivalent about money.
90. 90It's uncomfortable for me to yield to the will of another.
91. 91I have come close to dying.
92. 92I am cold.
93. 93I would not date someone that made me feel less than.
94. 94The most important quality in a life partner is someone who shares my love of relaxation.
95. 95It's important to have external guidance.
96. 96I would not date someone that ever made me feel less than.
97. 97Real adventure is accomplished internally.
98. 98Real adventure is accomplished externally.
99. 99I like to know how I rank compared to others.
100. 100I'm obsessed with how people are ordered socially.
101. 101Attention equals resources.
102. 102Attention equals power.
103. 103It's normal to reflect back to the public whatever they want to hear.
104. 104When a police person breaks the law they should get a harsher punishment than normal.
105. 105I have main character syndrome.
106. 106I manipulate others to get my way.
107. 107I avoid direct conflict with people who may be useful to me in the future.
108. 108I am especially motivated towards making friends with famous people.
109. 109When I want something, I go out and get it without much fear.
110. 110I prefer still to sparkling water.
111. 111I think everything is a joke.
112. 112I often think about what could go wrong in any situation.
113. 113I do not instantly trust people or their intentions until they prove they are trustworthy.
114. 114I focus a lot on protecting myself and my loved ones from the dangers of this world.
115. 115Most people think I'm a real optimist.
116. 116I take a long time to have a new creative solution to a problem.
117. 117When working in a team I'd be happy to let another person make decisions about how to divide a large sum of our money.
118. 118I am rarely skeptical.
119. 119I believe there is advanced life in other areas of the universe (as complex/sentient as humans or more so).
120. 120I don't get a lot or work done on a daily basis.
121. 121I like getting others to help me.
122. 122I'm more a character actor type than a leading actor type.
123. 123I'd prefer an off-camera job to an on-camera job.
124. 124You can't improve what you don't measure.
125. 125I like to go on float trips.
126. 126Politicians are looking out for the best interests of people.
127. 127I have stolen a small item from a store.
128. 128I'm interested in what's off about everything.
129. 129Honor is everything.
130. 130Stillness is the key.
131. 131If my country was taken over and I thought there was no hope to reverse that I would align myself to the new leaders / order of things.
132. 132I tend to fall in love very quickly.
133. 133I believe in God.
134. 134I believe there is life in other areas of the universe.
135. 135Labor unions are important.
136. 136There are a lot of legitimate conspiracies the mainstream media avoids covering.
137. 137I complain when the service is bad.
138. 138It's hard for me to enjoy environments that are divey.
139. 139The attractive / desirable external appearance of something is not remotely a reliable indication of its value.
140. 140Statistics lie.
141. 141Countries are the same as corporations.
142. 142All that glitters is not gold.
143. 143I tend to take the leadership role in any group I'm in.
144. 144Each ethnic group should stay in its own place.
145. 145I don't like new things.
146. 146I was a pretty compliant kid.
147. 147Physical punishment (such as spanking) is an appropriate way to discipline children.
148. 148I have no idea how my current path will end up.
149. 149I would love to be royalty.

What Stands Out

The original page noted that several neutral items appear related to artistic, intellectual, suspicious, and narcissistic tendencies. That is an interesting possibility, but the list itself does not establish that those domains are inherently more gender-neutral than others.

A safer interpretation is that gender typicality varies substantially by trait and by the exact wording used to measure it. Some broad domains contain items with large female/male differences and other items with virtually none. That makes item-level analysis useful: it can show where a general stereotype about a trait is too coarse.