Friendly
Making conversation while listening and sharing your own thoughts. This includes noticing expressions and gestures, not simply speaking a lot. Openness in an exchange can help people feel welcome.
Likable Person Test - How likable a person are you?
The Likable Person Test was inspired by Dr. Stephen Reysen's "Likability Scale." This test evaluates whether you are a likable person across six different dimensions. How likable are you? Take the test to find out!
Discover six sides of likability
Being easy to approach, keeping promises and showing care can all shape an interaction. This test invites you to reflect on your everyday attitudes and behavior through six different qualities.
Reflect on your behavior
Explore six qualities
Read scores and insights
Six qualities behind likability
These are dimensions, not six types of people. All six can coexist in one person. Looking at them separately helps you explore your own way of relating to others.
Positive
Looking for constructive possibilities, even when things are difficult. It can show in appreciating small joys, celebrating others and offering encouragement. It does not require denying difficulties or always appearing cheerful.
Honest
Being truthful, keeping promises and confidences, and taking responsibility for your actions. Admitting mistakes and treating people fairly are part of this quality. Consistency between words and actions supports trust.
Compassionate
Trying to understand another person’s feelings and perspective, and considering what support they need. Listening, offering help and expressing gratitude can all show care without imposing your own view.
Humble
Acknowledging your strengths and limitations while respecting other people’s opinions and contributions. It includes accepting feedback and recognizing support behind your achievements. Humility is not the same as putting yourself down.
Motivated
Learning, reflecting and making an effort to grow. Setting goals, trying something new and learning from setbacks express this quality. The focus is your own progress rather than being better than someone else.
How do similar qualities differ?
These pairings clarify the differences. They are neither opposing personalities nor an additional classification.
Friendly
Opening a conversation
Compassionate
Understanding someone’s feelings
Honest
Taking responsibility for your actions
Humble
Recognizing others’ views and contributions
Positive
How you interpret events
Motivated
How you work toward growth
What your results include
Overall score
An overview of likability based on your responses.
Six scores and a graph
Compare the qualities to see details an overall score alone cannot show.
Explanations and advice
Read guidance for each quality and reflect on how you relate to others.
Scores are a guide based on your own answers. They do not establish what other people actually think of you or measure your worth as a person. Your behavior can also change across situations and relationships.
References
Stephen Reysen’s Likability Scale uses 11 items to rate how likable another person is. This website offers its own 50-question, six-dimension self-report test inspired by that research, rather than the original scale. Evidence for the original scale does not by itself validate this test.
- Construction of a new scale: The Reysen Likability ScaleReysen, S. (2005). Social Behavior and Personality, 33(2), 201–208.
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