The Szondi Test

Online version of The Szondi Test, a nonverbal projective personality assessment method developed by the Hungarian psychiatrist Leopold (Lipot) Szondi in 1935. The test consists of presenting the examinee with a series of facial photographs, arranged in six groups of eight images each. The participant is asked to select the two most appealing and the two most repulsive faces in each group. These choices are interpreted as reflecting satisfied and unsatisfied instinctual drive needs, as well as underlying dimensions of personality.

Here you can take the “real” Szondi Test: using the original photographs (rather than redrawn versions) and including brief interpretations of the 4×16 drive vectors based on Szondi’s textbook, translated from German.

The Szondi test is not widely used in modern clinical psychology, because its psychometric properties are weak. However, it remains in the history of psychology as one of the well-known psychological instruments.

Test is provided for educational and entertainment use only. It is not intended to be a psychological advice of any kind, and come without any guarantee of accuracy or validity. Assesment is free and anonymous. You can save the direct link to your results.