Psychometric Testing — What We Measure
A catalog of validated instruments across personality, attachment, cognition, interpersonal behavior, psychopathology, and implicit motivation. All scored deterministically against published norms.
Personality
Five-Factor Personality Inventory
The most replicated structure in personality research — Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism — scored against published normative samples. 120-item full form with 30 facet scales.
Attachment Style (Experiences in Close Relationships)
Wei et al. (2007) short form. Two-dimensional adult attachment scoring (anxiety × avoidance) with quadrant classification into secure, preoccupied, dismissing, and fearful styles.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal Circumplex
32-item measure of interpersonal style across the Dominance (D) and Love (L) axes. Yields an octant classification and vector length (interpersonal intensity). Markey & Markey (2009); items from the public-domain IPIP.
Core Conflictual Relationship Theme
The relationship pattern you keep repeating — what you want from others, how you expect them to respond, and how you react — coded deterministically from three short stories you write, using Luborsky's (1998) standard category taxonomy. Re-take later and compare runs side by side.
Need to Belong Scale
Leary et al. (2013). 10-item measure of the fundamental motivation to form and maintain interpersonal bonds. Key differential predictor for avoidant vs. schizoid features.
Cognitive
Visual Digit Span
Working-memory span task. Digit sequences are presented and recalled forward, backward, or in ascending order. Scored as raw maximum span and sequences correct.
SPP LDT — Associative
One unified behavioral administration from the Semantic Priming Project (Hutchison et al., 2013): after a briefly presented prime word, the respondent decides whether a target letter string is a real word or a nonword. Verbatim SPP word pairs cross related vs. unrelated primes with short (200 ms) and long (1,200 ms) prime–target intervals, counterbalanced across forward and backward association strength and target age of acquisition — a stimulus characteristic, not a measured construct. Speed, accuracy, inverse efficiency, and supported priming effects carry empirical SPP percentiles.
Stroop Color–Word Test
The classic colour–word interference task (Stroop, 1935). Neutral, congruent, and incongruent blocks measure per-block reaction time, accuracy, and the Stroop interference effect (incongruent − congruent RT, in milliseconds).
Emotion Stroop Test
Colour-name emotionally salient vs comparison words (Williams et al., 1996), in nine assignable word-set variants including seven per-phobia sets (Watts et al., 1986). Reports mean reaction time, accuracy, inverse efficiency, variability, and the raw within-person interference effect.
Variable Tempo Stroop (Experimental)
Colour-naming Stroop across four blocks with a shrinking inter-stimulus interval (1000–250 ms). Reports Tempo Amplification Ratio, Dynamic Inhibition, and Executive Flexibility — novel within-person constructs without published norms.
Word-Recognition Validity Test
A two-alternative forced-choice recognition task (learn 50 words, then choose the studied word over a length-matched foil). A performance-validity check reporting recognition accuracy, an exact one-tailed below-chance binomial test, a provisional 45/50 cutoff, and a VALID / QUESTIONABLE / INVALID classification.
Psychopathology screeners
Depression Screener (PHQ-9)
Brief depression-symptom screener. Decision-aid only — not a diagnosis. Spitzer, Kroenke & Williams (1999). Widely validated in primary care and research settings.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale
Spitzer et al. (2006). 7-item anxiety screener validated against structured diagnostic interviews. Decision-aid — not a diagnosis.
PTSD Checklist
Weathers et al. (2013). 20-item DSM-5 aligned PTSD symptom checklist. Widely used in VA settings and trauma research. Decision-aid — not a diagnosis.
Revised Social Anhedonia Scale
Chapman et al. 40-item measure of social anhedonia — the absence of pleasure in social contexts. Primary predictor of schizoid personality features in the Winarick & Bornstein (2015) model.
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