The DiSC and DiSC Profile assessments describe individuals as a blend of four personality profiles — dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness — which originated from a 1928 book, Emotions of Normal People by William Moulton Marston. This model eventually became the foundation of the modern DiSC assessment published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc, and the DiSC assessment is prevalent mainly in corporate settings. However, neither the DiSC assessment nor the underlying DiSC theory appears in modern scientific research on personality.
TraitLab uses a combination of well-established models from modern personality science to describe your personality traits, career interests, social interaction style, and character strengths. Unlike the DiSC, TraitLab provides a science-based, comprehensive view of your personality that extends beyond workplace behavior.
TraitLab gradually combines information from hundreds of highly specific traits to build a more complete personality profile. Your TraitLab profile contains the same information from popular personality measures and and much, much more.
Anyone can get started with TraitLab right now by creating a free account.
Individuals are complex. TraitLab uses measures over 80 different dimensions to identify your combination of personality traits, career interests, interpersonal style, and character strengths.
While millions of people share similar DiSC profiles, your TraitLab results are unique to you.
TraitLab identifies your top character strengths, then suggests ways to leverage these strengths in your daily life.
Unlike the DiSC, TraitLab goes beyond a general personality description, translating it into more practical character strengths that you can exercise in professional and personal contexts.
DiSC profile assessments broadly describe your personality, but they do not provide any insight into how your personality and interests align with other occupations or career paths.
TraitLab allows you to easily explore how your personality profile compares with hundreds of occupations. These comparisons can reveal varying strengths and challenges across occupations, so you can better understand the trade-offs and opportunities behind different career paths.
DiSC profiles, such as dominance or stability, broadly describe a person's way of interacting with other people. TraitLab takes this to a new level of detail with a dedicated analysis of your characteristic interpersonal style.
TraitLab interpersonal style analysis describes your natural tendencies when navigating social interactions, conflicts, compromises, and your style's typical opportunities and challenges.
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Core trait profile (5 traits)
Unique personality wordcloud
16 personality typology
Private profile with saved progress
Shareable public profile
Custom username and profile link
Career Interests
Career Search and Matching
Strengths
Explore your personality in incredible detail with a comprehsive analysis of your traits, strengths, and interests.
Advanced trait profile (45 traits)
Unique personality wordcloud
16 personality typology
Private profile with saved progress
Shareable public profile
Strengths profile
Career interests
Career search and matching
Custom username and profile link
TraitLab is continuously learning and improving to give you new personality insights
Get crystal clear about your unique strengths.
Uncover your untapped personal strengths to level up in your current career, or get recommendations for surprising new career paths that fit your unique profile.
Ground yourself with a deep analysis of your personal strengths, and learn how to exercise them in everyday life.
How is your personality influencing your most important connections? Learn to recognize how your characteristic interpersonal style impacts your social interactions.
Most assessments label you with a simple type, missing the important details that make a big impact. TraitLab analyzes over 80 dimensions so your results are one-of-a-kind, just like you.
Most online assessments are not based on real published research, so you can't connect your results to useful information about habits, career choices, relationships, and other practical aspects of your life.
TraitLab uses assessments and concepts from actual scientific research, then makes it easy to see how your results relate to important life areas.
TraitLab was created by me, Greg Park, Ph.D. Hi!
Before starting TraitLab, I spent years publishing research findings as a Ph.D. and postdoctoral researcher in the areas of personality and psychological measurement. I've always been fascinated by the field of personality psychology and how it can help us understand ourselves and each other.
I made TraitLab to make it easier for you to find reliable, valid, and scientifically-supported personality assessments.
Are you comfortable with investing about an hour to understand yourself better? Do you care about scientific validity? Do you like to get into details and data?
If you answered yes to these questions, then you'll probably love TraitLab. I made it for people like me — people looking for a very detailed, comprehensive picture of their personality, strengths, and interests, backed by scientific research.
But if you are looking for a quick and fun personality quiz, TraitLab is probably not the best fit for you.
Most people will start seeing their first results after about 10 minutes (about 100 questions).
If you want to see every possible result from TraitLab, the full assessment can take anywhere from 30-60 minutes. However, you can always save your progress and take the assessment across several sittings.
There are over 700 potential questions currently in TraitLab, but you'll begin seeing results after the first 100 questions.
New questions are added regularly, but most questions are optional and only needed for advanced analyses.
It's free to create an account on TraitLab and learn quite a bit about your personality.
For more advanced analyses of your traits, strengths, and interests, you can upgrade to TraitLab Plus for $49.
Absolutely! If you want to share and compare your results with anyone, you can simply share your public profile.
For example, here's my own public profile here at TraitLab.
I'm always updating TraitLab to make it more useful and interesting. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you!
