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There’s the evergreen genre of business-oriented instruments that are mainly cheery self-assessments (“I notice when people are feeling sad: agree, or strongly agree?”)—but I’m not sure how valid those get.

As far as interesting efforts that reach for more objectivity, I feel like the personality psychology people circulated a bunch of “EQ” instruments like this in the ‘00s and ‘10s, rooted in Paul Ekman’s work on facial expressions:

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/ei_quiz/

Then again, they dealt with their replication crisis around the same time; I’m not sure how well these kinds of things held up.



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