The psychology behind every test — the new patterns nobody had named yet, and the real published science behind the classics.
Deep dives on the psychological patterns of right now — the ones nobody had named a test for yet.
Offloading thinking onto tools is old news — but conversational AI offloads something new: the reasoning itself. Here is what the actual brain-scan and survey research says about where that shifts from convenience into dependency.
Parasocial bonds — the one-sided attachments we form with celebrities, creators, and AI chatbots — are old psychology wearing a brand-new name. Here's where the term came from, and where ordinary affection turns into something costlier.
RSD went viral as shorthand for a very specific kind of pain — but the pattern has a much older paper trail than the term does, and the two are not quite the same thing.
The internet named it in 2020 and turned it into a punchline. But the mental habit underneath — narrating your own life as a story with you at the center — is something psychologists have studied for decades, and it has both a healthy version and a costly one.
That one-word reply you've reread three times could mean almost anything — and research says both the person who sent it and the person decoding it are far more confident than they are accurate. Here's what the science actually says about why tone gets lost in text, and what helps.
How the real, published frameworks behind our tests actually work — and what they can and cannot tell you.
An IQ score isn't a percentage correct or a ranking against everyone alive — it's a position on a specific bell curve, with a margin of error built in. Here's what the number is actually built from, and what it can't tell you.
No types, no boxes — just five spectrums that decades of research keep landing on. Here is where the Big Five came from, what each letter of OCEAN really measures, and why psychologists trust it more than any personality "type."
Attachment styles didn't start as a personality quiz — they started with infants, a locked door, and decades of research on what happens when the person you depend on leaves the room. Here's where anxious, avoidant, secure, and fearful-avoidant actually come from, and why psychologists now think in two dimensions instead of four boxes.
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy aren't three words for the same person — they're three separate, overlapping personality traits that researchers found nearly everyone carries some amount of. Here's where the term came from, what each trait actually describes, and why a high score is not a diagnosis.
Most online "EQ tests" ask you to rate yourself. The original science was never built that way — it was built on scenarios with a right-er and a wrong-er answer. The difference between those two things matters more than it sounds like it should.
Why most online psychology tests hold your own result hostage, and what we do instead.
You spend fifteen minutes answering questions about how you actually feel, and the next screen wants your card number to show you the answer. Here's the real pattern behind that moment, with real prices, and why PsychIQ built the opposite of it.
Most paid personality tests aren't selling better science — they're selling a longer report on the same public-domain instrument free sites already use. Here's how to tell the difference, tier by tier, before you type in a card number.
Already have a result? Here is what it actually means, band by band.
Your quadrant isn't a horoscope. Here's what research actually links attachment style to in adult relationships — and why the label you got this week isn't the one you're stuck with for life.
Intense reactions to rejection come up constantly in ADHD communities, often labeled 'RSD.' Here's what the actual research does — and doesn't — establish about the connection.