myPersonality database

myPersonality is a popular Facebook application that allows users to take real psychometric tests. As well as the data from the tests, around 40% of the respondents agree to give us access to their facebook profile data, and social network data.

Currently, our database contains more than 6,000,000 test results together with more than 4,000,000 individual profiles. Our respondents come from various age groups, backgrounds and cultures. They are highly motivated to answer honestly and carefully, as the only gratification they receive for their participation is feedback on their results. Their scores are combined with unprecedented amounts of additional information from those who opt in to sharing it with us, including detailed demographic profiles, a record of their behaviour in Facebook environment, their interests, preferences, opinions, etc.

myPersonality.org and Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre made available some of the information stored in the myPersonality databases to the wider academic community. To read more about the project and contents of the database, please visit:

If you are interested in further information or collaboration, please contact Michal Kosinski. Importantly, both myPersonality and its audience are open to new measures, so please let us know if you are interested in publishing a measure or online experiment on our platform.

To see what the myPersonality application looks like, please add it to your Facebook account by clicking here. (Please note that you need a Facebook account)

Psychometric measures currently available on myPersonality include:

  1. IPIP proxy for Costa and McCrae's NEO-PI-R domains,

  2. IPIP proxy for Costa and McCrae's NEO-PI-R facets,

  3. myIQ questionnaire,

  4. Diener's Satisfaction with Life questionnaire,

  5. Snyder’s Self-Monitoring,

  6. Sensational Interests Inventory,

  7. Rust's Work Personality,

  8. Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness.

  9. and more... (see myPersonality wiki for more details)

This project receives generous support from The Boeing Company, The Japan Center for University Entrance Examinations, The Gates Cambridge Trust and Speech Link Multimedia.