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).
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.
Yes, they are the same. I decided on different trait labels, so I decided on a different system label, but the same Big Five traits are being measured.
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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