An IQ score is one measurement of how a mind works. It’s not the only one worth having — and a lot of the others are more fun to look at.
This is a small set of tools built around questions people actually search for: what is the psychology of money? of love? of addiction? Each one is interactive — a quiz that types you, a diagram you can drag, an explorer you can click through — not a wall of text with a clickbait headline. And each is paired with a proper, sourced explainer of the idea, including the bits the popular versions get wrong. The bar throughout: it has to genuinely help you see something, or it doesn’t go in.
A word on what these are: reflective tools, not psychometric instruments. They’re built on real frameworks — Klontz’s money scripts, attachment theory, Sternberg’s triangle, Cialdini’s principles, Dweck’s mindsets, Csikszentmihalyi’s flow — and they’re good at surfacing patterns you might not have named. They are not diagnoses, and the addiction one in particular is not a screening test. Use them as mirrors and conversation starters. (If you want something with real psychometric grounding, that’s what the IQ test is for.)
The seven tools
The psychology of money
A 12-question money personality test — your archetype, a 4-axis “money script” profile (vigilance, worship, status, avoidance), and the behavioural-finance biases your answers tripped, each with a fix. Plus “the psychology of money” explained (incl. Morgan Housel’s lessons).
Open the tool → ColourThe psychology of color
An interactive colour explorer — tap a swatch, the panel recolours and shows folklore vs. actual research (the Baker-Miller pink myth, red & attraction, “blue = trust” is brand convention not science) — plus an 8-question “what’s your colour?” personality quiz.
Open the tool → LoveThe psychology of love
A 14-item attachment style test that plots you on the anxiety–avoidance map (secure / anxious / avoidant / fearful), plus an interactive Sternberg love triangle — drag the intimacy, passion and commitment sliders and watch it name the kind of love you’ve made.
Open the tool → AddictionThe psychology of addiction
The science, without the moralising: a Habit Loop Lab where you build a habit’s cue–routine–reward loop and see where it breaks, and a careful “what’s the pull?” reflection. Non-diagnostic, with help resources up top — this one explains the mechanism, it doesn’t assess you.
Open the tool → Mindset · DweckMindset: the new psychology of success
A 16-question growth-vs-fixed mindset test across four life domains (intelligence, talent, personality, relationships), your fixed-mindset trigger, a “flip the thought” reframe gallery — and the honest research, including what the bestseller version gets wrong.
Open the tool → Persuasion · CialdiniInfluence: the psychology of persuasion
An interactive guide to Cialdini’s seven principles — what each is, why it works, how it’s used on you, and the ethical version — plus a 14-scenario quiz that maps which levers move you most, with a guard for each soft spot.
Open the tool → Flow · CsikszentmihalyiFlow: the psychology of optimal experience
The Flow Channel — drag the skill and challenge sliders to a real activity and see which of the eight states you’re in (flow, anxiety, boredom, control…) and the route to flow — plus a reflection that finds your single biggest flow blocker, with the fix.
Open the tool →…and the original: how you reason
The tools above are about how you behave around money, how you bond, how you handle difficulty, how you’re persuaded, when you’re absorbed. The full IQ test on this site is about something narrower and more rigorously measured: how you reason — logical, pattern, numerical, verbal and spatial — on the standard scale (mean 100, SD 15), with a five-domain breakdown, a cognitive archetype, and a personalised certificate. It’s the one of these with the most research behind it. Its natural sibling is the EQ test — a quick self-report sketch of your emotional-intelligence profile across the five competencies (with the “it’s a self-report” caveats up front). For where IQ and EQ fit together, see IQ vs EQ; for whether your IQ number can move, can you improve your IQ?
See how you reason
41 questions · five cognitive domains · the standard IQ scale.
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