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How Do We Know When We're Being Ourselves?

Most of us have moments when we feel completely genuine. And other moments when we wonder if we're acting out of habit, expectation, or something else entirely. What does it actually mean to be authentic? In this activity, you'll answer about 70 questions exploring your thoughts, feelings, values, behaviors, and relationships. Your responses create a personalized profile across four dimensions of dispositional authenticity: self-awareness, living in alignment with your values, seeing yourself honestly (strengths and all), and being open and genuine with others. There are no right or wrong answers. It's simply an opportunity to pause, reflect, and learn a little more about what it means to be yourself.

Estimated Time: 7 to 15 minutes

Trying the activity first makes the reading a lot more fun and insightful! But you don't need to do any activity to learn with the Copernican Revolution. Here's a link directly to this activity's reading; it will be on your certificate of completion too.

https://CopernicanRevolution.org/self/authenticity

I created the Copernican Revolution Project so anyone can learn about psychology through self-exploration. With every activity, you’ll get personalized results, an interpretation guide, and a certificate of completion (perfect if you're here for class credit). To help discover psychological insights, I occasionally combine responses to update our guides, present at conferences, write papers, or help students learn statistics. Your data is strictly confidential, and I will never single you out.

You can skip any questions you prefer not to answer (though it may impact the precision of your results). While this isn’t legally classified as "research," I follow ethical guidelines and you can read the full details in our Terms of Service and Consent to Participate.

Once you get your results, please share them with friends and family! You might just inspire someone else to learn a little more about themselves.

Katie

May I please include your responses in the Copernican Revolution Project?  I appreciate your help, and you would be helping others learn about psychology too.  But if you're uncomfortable with your answers analyzed, it’s completely okay!  You'll still get your personalized feedback.  You can still read our interpretation guides.  And you'll still get a certificate of completion.

 
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