Self-Discovery: What You Can't See About Yourself Is Often What Matters Most
Most personality tests tell you what you already know. You answer questions about yourself, and the test reflects your answers back in slightly different language. That's useful — but it's incomplete. Research consistently shows that the parts of your personality you can accurately describe on a questionnaire account for only part of who you are.
Implicitify measures the rest.
Why Self-Report Isn't Enough
Self-report questionnaires measure your explicit self-concept — how you see yourself and want to be seen. But decades of research in personality and social cognition have established that people also have implicit psychological patterns — automatic associations, unconscious motives, and habitual ways of relating to others — that operate outside conscious awareness and often predict behavior better than self-report alone.
The gap between what you think drives you and what actually drives you is not a flaw. It's a feature of how the mind works. Understanding that gap is what makes genuine self-knowledge possible.
What We Measure
Attachment Style (ECR-SF)
How you connect in close relationships — your tendencies toward anxiety (fear of abandonment) and avoidance (discomfort with intimacy). Attachment patterns formed early in life shape relationship behavior, emotional regulation, and even physical health outcomes in adulthood. This is the free entry point — no account needed, full report included.
Personality Traits (IPIP-FFM)
The Big Five — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — measured with a validated inventory from the International Personality Item Pool. These five broad dimensions capture the structure of personality as it appears across cultures, languages, and measurement methods.
Implicit Motives (PSE)
Your unconscious drives for achievement, affiliation, and power — measured through the Picture Story Exercise, not a questionnaire. You write brief stories in response to ambiguous images, and a validated scoring engine identifies motivational themes in your spontaneous narrative content. These implicit motives predict long-term behavioral patterns, career choices, and relationship styles — and they correlate near-zero with what you'd say about yourself on a questionnaire.
Defense Mechanisms (DSQ-88)
How you cope with stress, conflict, and emotional pain. Defense mechanisms range from mature (humor, sublimation, anticipation) to neurotic (undoing, reaction formation) to immature (denial, projection, acting out). Everyone uses defenses — the question is which ones, and whether they're helping or getting in your way.
Interpersonal Style (IPC-32)
Your characteristic patterns of dominance and warmth in social interactions, mapped on the interpersonal circumplex — a two-dimensional model that captures the structure of interpersonal behavior. Where you fall on this map predicts how you lead, collaborate, handle conflict, and build relationships.
Relational Patterns (CCRT)
The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme — a psychodynamic framework identifying your recurring patterns of wishes, expected responses from others, and responses from self across relationships. Originally developed by Lester Luborsky for psychotherapy research, the CCRT reveals the template you bring to relationships, often without realizing it.
The Self-Discovery Journey
Rather than taking assessments at random, the Self-Discovery Journey guides you through measures in a clinically meaningful sequence. Each stage builds on the last, producing progressively deeper integrative reports — culminating in the Integrative Psychodynamic Profile (IPPS), a comprehensive synthesis of all your assessment data.
Stage 1: Foundation — Attachment and personality. Who you are on the surface and how you connect.
Stage 2: Depth — Implicit motives and defense mechanisms. What drives you beneath conscious awareness.
Stage 3: Integration — Interpersonal style, relational patterns, and the full integrative profile. How it all fits together.
Start Free
The ECR-SF Attachment Style Assessment is completely free — no account, no credit card, full professional report. It takes about 5 minutes and tells you something real about how you function in close relationships.