Personality

I find the study of personality fascinating as it is the essence of what makes each person unique. I've always taken interest in my own personality and figuring out just what and who I am, so personality tests are generally enjoyable to me.

So, the first test I took was the Jung Typology Test. I turned out to be an ISFP, and after reading the characteristics of my personality type I had a "That is so like me!" moment. I really liked this one because it put a term to all my little quirky habits that I couldn't really explain before. Another thing I really liked was the celebrity list. I found out that people like Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, and Donald Trump have personalities similar to mine, and after the fact, I've started to kinda see those characteristics in them. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I think it's cool. :)

After that I took the Perfectionist Test from BBC which was basically a questionnaire like the Jung Typology Test. All around I was pretty neutral about everything. I feel that it was an accurate test for me because I am not strongly perfectionist nor am I a hobo, so yeah. I did agree or disagree that my parents pressured me or had high expectations and I scored a 4 (Agree) for high standards/doubting oneself. And finally I got a 2 (disagree) for being neat, and that is pretty accurate.

The third test I took involved the Necker Cube and explained what one scientist thought to be a correlation between "passive flipping" between perspectives of the cube and introverts vs. extroverts. I flipped it 19 times in 30 seconds, so I actually acted according to the theory that introverts passively flip faster because our brains have more activity. That makes me feel so special. :D

Okay, so the fourth test I took was about Disgust levels (also from BBC) and basically I just looked at pictures and rated how disgusting I thought they were. I would have had a better opinion of my test if it hadn't screwed up nearly every answer I made. I was kinda ticked at the end of it because I really wanted to know how I perceive what is and isn't disgusting. What a bummer.

The final test I took an Attraction Test from Explain Your Brain. First I filled out a small quiestionnaire about what I found attractive in a man, things like intelligence, seductiveness, well-groomed, etc. Then I looked at pictures of men and rated how attractive they seemed. While I have no intention of explicitly retelling my results, I will say that I found them rather accurate. The only problem I had was that I prefer black guys and most of the pictures were of white guys (who really don't do anything for me) so I feel as if my results were a bit biased. And those are things that everyone needed to know about me. :P

All in all, I found these personality tests to be fairly accurate, but that might be the Barnum Effect at work, right? (brownie points) 

Fun Fact Link - This link is about the "Nazi personality" originally studied by Hermann Goering.  http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/03/nazi.aspx

Random Tidbit (just cuz):

Psychoanalysis at work!