Methodology
The science behind each framework — citations, history, what the dimensions mean, and the limitations every honest practitioner should know about.
16 Personality Factor (16PF) Model
One of the earliest factor-analytic personality models, identifying 16 primary traits and the higher-order "global" factors that later evolved into the Big Five.
8Values and Multi-Axis Political Quizzes
A four-axis expansion of the two-axis political model, mapping political views along economic, diplomatic, civil, and societal dimensions.
Attachment Theory
A framework from developmental psychology that explains how early caregiving relationships shape how we form close bonds as adults — across romantic partners, friends, and family.
Cognitive Bias and Heuristics
Systematic errors in how people perceive, judge, and decide — first catalogued by Tversky and Kahneman and now central to behavioral economics and judgment research.
Emotional Intelligence (EI / EQ)
The ability to perceive, understand, regulate, and use emotions effectively — in yourself and in relationships with others.
Four Style Behavioral Model
A four-style behavioral model focused on observable workplace behavior — Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness — widely used in team training and management contexts.
HEXACO Personality Model
A six-dimensional refinement of the Big Five that adds Honesty-Humility — a factor that captures fairness, sincerity, and modesty better than any Big Five dimension does.
Jungian Type Theory (and MBTI)
A type-based personality model originating with Carl Jung and popularized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Useful as a vocabulary for self-reflection, less rigorous than dimensional models.
Love Expression Preferences
A five-category vocabulary for how people prefer to give and receive affection — original to this site, genuinely useful as a conversation starter, and far weaker as science than its popularity suggests.
Moral Foundations Theory
A pluralist account of human moral judgment, identifying multiple innate intuitions that different cultures and political groups emphasize to different degrees.
Personal and Economic Freedom Axes
A two-axis map that treats personal liberties and economic liberties as separate questions rather than one left-right position — and is explicit that "freedom" is a contested concept, not a measurement.
The Big Five (OCEAN) Personality Model
The most widely studied model of human personality, capturing five major dimensions that have shown consistent validity across cultures, ages, and decades of research.
Two-Axis and Multi-Dimensional Political Models
Two-dimensional and multi-dimensional models that map political views beyond a single left-right axis, capturing economic preferences alongside social-authoritarian preferences.