Facet Map

“Maps are a way of organising wonder”

—Peter Steinhart

The Facet-level Multidimensional Assessment of Personality (Facet MAP) provides the most comprehensive assessment of human personality traits, to date. On this site, you will find the trait labels, definitions, and an open-access tool to assess all 70 narrow personality traits.

The Facet MAP was developed to address one major limitation in personality assessment: the lack of a relatively comprehensive, non-redundant, set of narrow personality facets. All lists prior to the Facet MAP either miss important facets or contain redundant facets.

The Facet MAP is free to use, in part or as a whole, for any non-commercial, research, or educational purpose, under a CC BY-NC-SA license. If you use the Facet MAP, in any way, and would be happy to share your data with us, we would be greatly appreciative.

For details of the initial development of the Facet Map, version 1, please see the following paper and associated supplementary materials: Irwing, P., Hughes, D.J., Tokarev, A., & Booth, T. (2023). Towards a taxonomy of personality facets. European Journal of Personality

The Facets

Here you will find the facet labels, definitions, items, and scoring keys

Facet MAP in the spotlight: Personality Psychology Podcast Interview

The Authors

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