Research prototype

A new kind of personality framework

You do not have to choose one side of yourself.

Prism Seven is a theoretical personality system that measures behaviors, preferences, motives, concerns, coping, emotions, attention, and situational differences without forcing them into one rigid type.

421 graded questions · about 30–45 minutes · progress saves automatically

Private by defaultYour answers remain in this browser. Transparent scoringEvery result can show its source answers. Research statusThe framework is theoretical and unvalidated.
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Seven-point answers

Every slider uses wording suited to the question: frequency, preference, importance, concern, intensity, attention, difficulty, or perceived ability.

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Coexisting tendencies

One score does not subtract from its partner. You can score high, low, or anywhere between on both.

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Visible evidence

Your finished report can show the answers and stored text pieces behind every interpretation.

What it produces

One readable profile, assembled from many separate results.

Your report begins with eight broad tendencies arranged in four pairs. It then adds narrower habits, ways of considering situations, motives and concerns, responses to difficulty, emotional patterns, attention, and the contexts we actually asked about.

The seven levels make the report readable. The continuous scores and original answers remain underneath, so a display label never becomes the whole result.

Method and evidence

How Prism Seven works—and what would have to be true for it to hold up.

The framework is built from established measurement ideas, but the framework itself is still a hypothesis. This page separates the reasoning behind it from evidence we do not have yet.

The basic mechanism

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Answer graded questions

Questions use seven clearly worded positions suited to frequency, preference, importance, concern, intensity, attention, difficulty, or perceived ability.

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Score components separately

Each eligible component receives its own 0–100 response-scale index. A high score does not automatically subtract from another tendency.

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Display seven bands

The index is summarized in one of seven readable bands while the exact score, answer pattern, and sensitivity stay available.

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Assemble the report

Stored component descriptions and linking sentences are selected from the results. The system records exactly which answers produced each paragraph.

Why the idea is plausible

Four reasons to test it seriously

Personality scores usually behave by degree.

Research comparing MBTI indices with the five-factor model found dimensional patterns rather than clean natural categories. Prism therefore retains degree instead of treating a person as entirely one side.

People can show different states across situations.

Whole-trait approaches describe traits as distributions of momentary states. That supports measuring general patterns while keeping specifically assessed contexts separate.

Complex items may relate to more than one construct.

Exploratory structural equation modeling allows cross-loadings to be tested instead of forced to zero. Prism begins with simple separate scoring and treats more complicated weighting as something evidence must earn.

Readable reports may improve understanding.

Seven bands may communicate degree better than binary labels. That is a communication hypothesis; it must be tested against continuous scores and simpler reports.

What is established

The software follows the declared rules.

All questions, scoring routes, missing states, profile components, and narrative connections pass internal consistency checks.

What is not established

The psychological interpretation is unproven.

We still need participant comprehension work, factor analysis, reliability, retest evidence, group comparability, external validity, and independent replication.

How the theory can fail

Evidence is allowed to change the system.

  • If the proposed components do not reproduce, merge, revise, or remove them.
  • If seven bands confuse readers or discard useful information, change the display.
  • If context patterns do not repeat, weaken or remove those interpretations.
  • If Prism adds no useful measurement or communication value, do not claim superiority.

References and source systems

Sources informing the proposal

  1. Boateng, G. O., et al. (2018). Best practices for developing and validating scales for health, social, and behavioral research. Frontiers in Public Health, 6, 149. DOI
  2. Fleeson, W. (2001). Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: Traits as density distributions of states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(6), 1011–1027. DOI
  3. Marsh, H. W., et al. (2010). A new look at the Big Five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modeling. Psychological Assessment, 22(3), 471–491. DOI
  4. McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T., Jr. (1989). Reinterpreting the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator from the perspective of the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Personality, 57(1), 17–40. DOI
  5. Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(1), 117–143. DOI
  6. International Personality Item Pool. Converting IPIP item responses to scale scores. Source
  7. The Myers-Briggs Company. MBTI facts and preference pairs. Source
  8. Myers & Briggs Foundation. Type dynamics overview. Source
  9. The Enneagram Institute. How the Enneagram system works and type descriptions. Source
  10. Fauvre, K. What is Tritype®. Source

The final four sources document systems that informed the content audit. Citing them does not adopt or validate every claim made by those systems.

Profile library

Every compact four-domain combination.

Browse all 2,401 compact codes. These are reporting combinations—not 2,401 proven natural kinds of people.

2,401compact four-domain codes
5,764,801eight-score broad band combinations
788possible full aggregate band patterns, assembled when needed
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Broad tendencies

Questions 1–8

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Your personality profile

Building your individual portrait…

Connecting the patterns supported by your answers.

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At a glance

The broad shape of your profile

These qualities can exist together. One side does not cancel out the other.

Your story in context

How the different parts fit together

The report emphasizes the combinations most strongly supported by this particular set of answers.

Your particular combination

Patterns that make this profile distinctive

Distinctive here means informative within your results. It does not claim that a pattern is statistically rare.

    Explore every measured area

    The portrait above selects the most informative themes. These chapters preserve the rest of your results in plain language.

    Boundaries

    What this result does not know

    OptionalTechnical detailsProfile code, exact scores, answers, and evidence for every narrative claimOpen technical details
    Profile codeCalculating…

    Indices locate results within their own response scales. They are not percentiles or population rankings. Bands are the seven display levels used to turn those indices into readable descriptions.

    Portrait evidence

    Complete score record

    ComponentStatusIndexBandAnswers

    Detailed-results assembly record