What is the Big Personality Test?
The Big Personality Test is designed to answer the question: do our personalities shape our lives or do our lives shape our personalities?

I would like you all to contribute to this psychological research by answering simple questions about things like your lifestyle, preferences, relationships and background. By doing this you will be helping scientists to understand to what extent our personalities are shaped by a whole range of influences.

Once you have finished you will recieve a detailed video feedback from Professor Robert Winston, in addition to a range of other fascinating insights about what makes you you.

What is personality?

The idea of ‘personality’ is familiar to everyone, but what does it actually mean? Broadly speaking, ‘personality’ describes the patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion that make a person unique.

The Big Five personality test is one of the most widely used psychological measures

The Big Five



The Big Personality Test works out your ‘Big Five’ traits (which we refer to as ‘your unique personality fingerprint’). The Big Five test, or ‘Five Factor’ personality test, is a widely recognised and well-used scientific measure of personality.

The traits it measures are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism (OCEAN).

Openness-to what extent you are receptive to novel ideas, creative experiences and different values.

Conscientiousness-to what extent you are organised, strategic and forward-planning.

Extroversion-to what extent you are inclined to experience positive emotions and how attracted you are to social, stimulating experiences.

Agreeableness-to what extent you are concerned about the feelings of others and how easily you form bonds with people.

Neuroticism- to what extent you react to perceived threats and stressful situations.

This test is a very realiable measure of personality and it is extremely likely that if you take this test in five years time you will get a similar result.


So why not take part in an important psychological research study.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/personality

Let me know how you got on :)