Personality describes individual differences between how people typically react to different situations. For example, one person may love to be competitive and like debates, whereas another person may prefer to avoid any conflict and competition. Different attitudes tend to cluster together and thus are grouped into traits. See “What are personality traits” for more information. Interested in understanding more about your personality? Take our free personality test now!

The Big 5 personality test measures five traits consisting of clusters of attitudes that tend to group together. The Big 5 is also often known as the OCEAN model due to the first letter of each of the five traits. These include Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Negative emotion. Each trait consists of a continuous scale. Thus each person is given a score along this scale, and few people are at the extreme end of the scale (For example, for the extraversion scale, there are few pure introverts or extraverts). Across the five personality traits, each person varies upon a five-dimensional state space, and is not thrust into a very limited number of categories like in other personality measures.

No, it does not predict behavior in all situations. There are some areas of behavior that are not explained, such as the dark side of behavior described by Hogan 11 derailers, like how passive-aggressive, or narcissistic someone will be. Personality traits are not used to detect personality disorders. Also, they do not capture motives or drives that can often make people change how they act if they believe it will help them accomplish a goal. Personality traits do not capture how people find purpose and meaning. Furthermore, traits are rather broad in their descriptions, and group several attitudes together. People may not score the same across all the sub-dimensions of a trait (including the facets and nuances). For example, with a high conscientiousness trait, a person could score high on striving for achievements, but lower on tidiness. Thus, traits alone will not capture all individual differences in behavior.

Each trait has tradeoffs. Scores at extreme ends may make it more difficult for the individual to adapt to certain situations. For example, being extremely conscientiousness may often help someone to keep on task and get jobs done, but may lead to excessive perfectionism, and an inability to just relax and have fun while on vacation. Being extremely introverted may be good for situations that require solitary work (like being a computer programmer), but not good in a networking situation. High scorers on negative emotion may be more prone to burnout , depression and anxiety disorders.

Personality traits describe the general disposition of each person, but that can change depending on the situation. For example, if there is a deadline for a major project at work, or an exam at school, people will become more conscientious and focus on finishing remaining tasks. Additionally, at a networking event, introverts will often make an effort to be more extroverted, or someone not very open may try new foods when pressured by peers. The changes based on situations are called personality states and generally last for a short period of time (minutes or hours). Traits and states match about 70% of the time, but remember you are not stuck with your traits--you can modify them with our personality change program.

For Openness, high scorers tend to be more curious, have a diversity of interests, enjoy art, and are imaginative. Low scorers on openness are more practical, and prefer the conventional and routines. For Conscientiousness, high scorers are hardworking, dependable, and organized. Low scorers are more often more easy-going, spontaneous, and disorganized. For Extraversion, those who score high are often labelled as extroverts, and tend to be more assertive, outgoing, and positive, and enjoy spending time with other people. Those who score lower are often labelled as introverts, and tend to be more reserved, contemplative, and prefer quiet places. For the Agreeableness trait, high scorers tend to be more altruistic, trusting, forgiving, and modest. Low scorers tend to be less gullible, less compromising, and more confident in their own opinions. For Negative emotion, high scorers tend to be more anxious, moody, and have more negative emotions. Low scorers tend to be more emotionally stable, secure, and less impulsive. More details can be found in the full personality report. Take your free personality test now!

1. The Big 5 doesn’t force people into a small number of types. Scores can vary over a 5 dimensional state space giving a more nuanced picture. Other personality measures, like the MBTI tend to assume that people fall into specific types at one of two extremes of each scale. MBTI assumes 16 types. Enneagram assumes 9 types. Disc assumes people fit into only four types! Colors also assumes only 4 different types, but claims some people may have more than one color.
2. The groupings for the Big 5 traits are based on thousands of scientific studies, whereas most of the other personality measures are more arbitrarily selected and developed often by just a few individuals.
3. Big 5 personality measures are much better at predicting life outcomes than the other personality measures, like health, career, relationships, and wellness.

Traits consist of facets which then consist of nuances. Nuance is at the question level, so each question that is answered provides a score for a nuance. Often there are a few questions for each facet expressed in different ways to ensure that the question is answered consistently. Then the score of several different nuances combined together make up a facet. Facet scores are then combined into traits. There are usually 3-6 facets per trait. While most personality psychologists agree that the Big 5 are the best way to divide up high level traits (but see the HEXACO model ), there is less agreement about the specific facets and nuances that make up each trait. This is an area of heavy research in the personality psychology field.

Personality traits are longer lasting, and describe the general character of a person and how they will react overall to situations in general. Personality states describe the way someone acts in a specific situation. They tend to last for only moments (minutes or hours at most). Traits and states match about 70% of the time, but remember you are not stuck with your traits--you can modify them with our personality change program.

If you register you will be able to look at your scores any time. You can also compare your scores across up to three tests free. It will also make it easier for you to keep up to date of when we offer the full personality change program so you can be among the first to sign up!

In roughly 3 months, we help you set reachable goals with achievable tasks that you can do daily along with weekly themes. You will first practice new behaviors in AI-enhanced simulations and then practice them in real life. You will be able to communicate with digital coaches and other people in the program to exchange tips and get support. The goals help you complete the pathway to your desired changes. To succeed, you do need to put in the effort but it only takes a few minutes to check in per day, and a longer planning effort once a week. The program is based on the PEACH Program (Personality detection and digital personality coaching), which enrolled 1500 participants and found significant personality trait changes lasting at least one year!

After completing the free assessment, you will receive a free short report about your personality which will show your percentile scores for each of the Big 5 traits (how you compare based on over 600,000 people who have previously taken the test). you will also receive information explaining how either increasing or decreasing scores on these traits can affect your life.
If you upgrade to the full report, you will receive:
1. Percentiles for each of the 6 facets that make up each trait, for a total of 30 facets.
2. Detailed explanation about your strengths.
3. Detailed explanation about growth areas.
4. Detailed explanation about how your personality can affect your life outcomes in health, education, career, wellbeing, and relationships.
5. How your scores compare to people in your country.
6. How your scores compare to people around the same age as you.
you will also receive a discount on the personality change program once it becomes available!

Yes, please email us @ info@cognirise.in and we will set up a time that works. First session is only 199 USD for an hour session with our cofounder, Dr. Michael D. Patterson.

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