Public Domain Measures

Large, varied collections

• Alan Reifman's Social-Personality Psychology Questionnaire Instrument Compendium (By far, the best student resource for public domain tests)
• Psychological tests for student researchers

Personality tests

•     ERIC's searchable database of personality tests
•     Sources of Big 5 personality scales

• • A 10-item scale (site also includes another test developed by Professor Gosling: the Short Test of Musical Preferences)
  • The Oregon Research Institute: Interesting site and provides data (especially internal consistency data) on the scales. You may especially like their  alphabetical list of 204 Constructs and scale items that measure those constructs

•     HEXACO (an alternative to the Big 5)
•     Dr. Miserandino's links to tests, measures, and scales

Prejudice measures

• A collection of implicit association tests
• An online implicit association test
• Glick and Fiske's ambivalent sexism inventory
• Measures of attitudes toward homosexuality

Need for cognition scale (short form)

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