Have you heard that with the help of geometric shapes you can determine the type of person's personality?

Imagine - there is, and not only psychological test"geometric figures", and the whole system is psychogeometry, which has developed in the USA. Its author is the famous American psychologist Susan Dellinger.

The accuracy of this method is 85%, as evidenced by numerous sociological studies. You can verify this yourself.

Look at the proposed geometric shapes and choose the one that you think best represents you as a person. In other words, you can say for sure: this figure is I. Arrange the remaining figures in order of preference.

So, in the first place - YOU, in the last - geometric figure, symbolizing the person with whom interaction will present the greatest difficulties for you. Well, the most interesting - the characteristics of those who chose:

Square

Tireless worker. Possesses industriousness, zeal, perseverance, allowing always to achieve the completion of work. Patience and methodicalness make the square of a highly qualified specialist. The square, as it were, collects information, and it is laid out strictly on the shelves, so it is able to quickly extract the necessary information and is deservedly known as an erudite in its field. Refers to left-brain thinkers, which are characterized by logical thinking and mathematical analysis. The square calculates the result rather than guessing about it. The ideal of a square is a planned, measured life, where everything is predictable. He does not like surprises and surprises. In the business sphere, such people often become good administrators, performers, but rarely succeed as managers because of the constant need for additional information for making decisions - this deprives them of efficiency. In addition, rationality and coldness prevent squares from quickly establishing contacts with other people.

Triangle

This shape symbolizes leadership. The main ability is to concentrate on the intended goal, to analyze the situation deeply and quickly. Triangle is a very confident person who wants to be right about everything. He admits his mistakes with great difficulty, is easily trained, absorbs information like a sponge. The meaning of life is to make a career. Negative quality - excessive egocentrism. He perfectly knows how to present to the higher management the significance of his own work, feeling a profitable business from a mile away, and in the struggle for it he can "push foreheads" of his opponents.

Rectangle

It is like a transitional form from one figure to another. People who are dissatisfied with their lives and therefore busy looking for a better position perceive themselves as a rectangle. The main mental state of the rectangle is a conscious feeling of confusion, confusion in problems, uncertainty. The most significant features are inconsistency, unpredictability of actions, low self-esteem. Positive qualities - curiosity, inquisitiveness, a keen interest in everything that happens, courage. Tries to do things he's never done before, asks questions he didn't have the guts to answer before.

A circle

This is a symbol of harmony. The one who chose this figure is interested in good interpersonal relationships. The highest value for the circle is people and their well-being. This is the most benevolent of the five figures. The circle serves as a kind of glue that holds the team together, the family, stabilizes the group, has a high ability of sympathy, empathy. The circle feels someone else's joy and someone else's pain as its own. This is a right hemispheric type of thinking, not logical, but figurative, more emotionally colored. The processing of information in such people is not consistent, but mosaic. Main feature style of their thinking - orientation to the subjective factors of the problem.

Zigzag

It is a symbol of creativity. He is imaginative. The right-brain thinking of the zigzag is not fixed on the details, therefore, by simplifying the picture of the world in some way, it allows you to build holistic, harmonious concepts and images, to see beauty. Zigzag cannot work in one place for a long time - it's very boring, but there are so many interesting things around! The main purpose of the zigzag is the generation of new ideas and methods, not their actual implementation. He is looking to the future and is more interested in the possibility than in reality.

Yu. A. ZAKHAROV, psychologist

Psychogeometry as a science appeared in the USA, its author is Stuzen Dellinger. This group of tests is projective methods, i.e. a person here makes a decision under conditions of uncertainty, he does not know the interpretation of the test and cannot adjust the result to what he would like to be, for example.

This test was based on a person's perception of figures with the following features: stability, the presence or absence of angles, the closedness of the figure. Already by these indicators one can judge a person and his ways of interacting with others.

Interesting? Well, let's get down to the test itself. Perhaps the results will surprise you with their unpredictability.

By the way, this test is often offered during a job interview. Check yourself in advance.

Take a close look at these figures and choose the one that you like the most in this moment. Your choice can tell you a lot about who you are as a person, what are your strengths and weaknesses.

After you make your first choice, take a close look at the remaining shapes and choose the one you now like more than the others. Repeat until there is one figure left that you like the least.

This was the most difficult stage. Now we have to interpret the test results.

SQUARE
If your main figure turned out to be a square, then you are a tireless worker. Diligence, diligence, the need to bring the work begun to the end, perseverance, allowing you to achieve completion of the work - these are the main qualities of true Squares. Endurance, patience and method usually make these people a highly qualified specialist in their field. This is facilitated by an insatiable need for information. All the information that they have is systematized and sorted. The square is able to issue necessary information instantly, therefore people of this type are deservedly known as erudite, at least in their field.

If you have chosen a square for yourself - a linear figure, then most likely you belong to the “left hemisphere” thinkers, i.e. those who process data in a sequential format: a-b-c-d ... They rather “calculate the result ' than guess about it. They are extremely attentive to details, details, they love the routine once and for all. Their ideal is a planned, predictable life, and they do not like changing the usual course of events. They are constantly “arranging”, organizing people and things around them.

All these qualities contribute to the fact that Squares can become good specialists - technicians, excellent administrators, but are rarely good managers. Excessive predilection for details, the need for clarifying information for decision-making deprives the Square of efficiency. Neatness, observance of rules, etc., can develop to a paralyzing extreme. In addition, rationality, emotional dryness, conservatism in assessments prevent Squares from quickly establishing contacts with different people. Squares are ineffective in an amorphous situation.

TRIANGLE
This shape symbolizes leadership, and many Triangles feel this is their destiny. The most salient feature true Triangle - the ability to concentrate on the main goal. They are energetic, strong personalities. In the Luscher test, they often prefer green and draw a Christmas tree when asked to draw a tree. Triangles, like their relatives Squares, are linear shapes and tend to also be "left-brained" thinkers, able to analyze situations deeply and quickly. However, in contrast to Squares, which are focused on details, Triangles focus on the main thing, on the essence of the problem. Their strong pragmatic orientation directs mental analysis and limits it to the search for an effective solution to the problem under given conditions.

Triangle is a very confident person who wants to be right about everything! The need to be right and the need to manage the state of affairs, to decide not only for oneself, but, if possible, for others, makes the Triangle a person who is constantly competing, competing with others. Triangles have a hard time admitting their mistakes! We can say that they see what they want to see, do not like to change their decisions, are often categorical, do not recognize objections. Fortunately (for them and those around them), Triangles quickly and successfully learn (absorb useful information like a sponge), however, only to what corresponds to their pragmatic orientation and contributes (from their point of view) to the achievement of the main goal.

Triangles are ambitious. If it is a matter of honor for the Square to achieve highest quality work performed, the Triangle seeks to achieve a high position, to acquire a high status, in other words, to make a career. Triangles make great managers. The main thing negative quality Triangles: strong egocentrism, self-centeredness. On the way to the heights of power, they do not show particular scrupulousness in relation to moral standards. Triangles make everything and everyone revolve around them... Maybe life would lose its sharpness without them.

This figure symbolizes the state of transition and change. This is a temporary form of personality that the other four relatively stable figures can "wear" at certain periods of life. These are people who are not satisfied with the way of life that they lead now, and therefore are busy looking for a better position. The reasons for the "rectangular" state can be very different, but one thing unites them - the significance of changes for a particular person.

Main mental state Rectangles is a more or less conscious state of confusion, entanglement in problems and uncertainty about oneself at a given time. Most character traits- inconsistency and unpredictability of actions during transition period. They usually have low self-esteem. They strive to become better in something, they are looking for new methods of work, lifestyles. Quick, abrupt and unpredictable changes in the behavior of the Rectangle usually confuse and alarm other people, and they may deliberately shy away from contact with the “man without a core”.

Rectangles, on the other hand, need to communicate with other people, and this is another difficulty of the transition period. However, the Rectangle also has positive qualities that attract others to it: curiosity, inquisitiveness, a keen interest in everything that happens and ... courage! During this period, they are open to new ideas, values, ways of thinking and living, they easily learn everything new. True, the reverse side of this is excessive gullibility, suggestibility. Therefore Rectangles are easy to manipulate. "Rectangularity" is just a stage. She will pass!

The circle is a mythological symbol of harmony. The one who confidently chooses it is sincerely interested above all in good interpersonal relationships. The highest value for the Circle is people. The circle is the most benevolent of the five shapes. It most often serves as the “glue” that holds both the work team and the family together, that is, it stabilizes the group. Circles are the best communicators primarily because they are the best listeners. They have high sensitivity, developed empathy - the ability to empathize. Circles perfectly "read" people and in one minute are able to recognize a pretender, a deceiver.

Circles "cheer" for their team and are popular among work colleagues. However, they tend to be weak managers and leaders in business. First, Circles are about people rather than business. In an attempt to keep the peace, they sometimes avoid taking a "hard" stance and making unpopular decisions. For the Circle, there is nothing more difficult than to enter into interpersonal conflict. They try to avoid it at all costs. Sometimes, to the detriment of the cause. Secondly, Circles are generally not distinguished by determination, often they cannot present themselves properly. Triangles, as a rule, easily take over them. However, the Circles are not too worried about who holds the power. In one, the Circles show enviable firmness - when it comes to moral issues or violations of justice.

The circle is a non-linear shape, and those who confidently identify with the circle are more likely to be "right hemisphere" thinkers.

"Right hemispheric" thinking is more figurative, intuitive, emotionally colored, more perceiving than analyzing. Therefore, the processing of information by the Circles is carried out not in a sequential format, but rather in a mosaic, with breakthroughs with omissions of individual links. This does not mean that Krug is at odds with logic. It's just that formalism does not get priority in solving life's problems. The main features in their thinking are an orientation towards the subjective factors of the problem (values, assessments, feelings, etc.) and the desire to find common ground even in opposing points of view.

We can say that the Circle is a born psychologist. However, he is often a weak organizer - he lacks the "left hemisphere" skills of his "linear brothers" - the Triangle and the Square.

This figure symbolizes creativity, if only because it is the most unique of the five figures and the only open figure. If you have firmly chosen the zigzag as the main shape, then you are most likely a true “right-brain” thinker, a dissident.

You, like your closest relative Krug, only to an even greater extent, are characterized by figurativeness, intuitiveness, mosaicism. Strict, consistent deduction is not your style. Zigzag thought makes desperate jumps from "a" to "z", so many "left-brained" people find it difficult to understand Zigzags.

“Right hemispheric” thinking is not fixed on the details, therefore, by simplifying the picture of the world in some way, it allows you to build holistic, harmonious concepts and images, to see beauty. Zigzags usually have a developed aesthetic sense.

The dominant thinking style of the ZigZag is most often the synthetic style. Unlike Circles, Zigzags are not at all interested in consensus and achieve synthesis not through concessions, but on the contrary, by sharpening the conflict of ideas and building a new concept in which this conflict is resolved, “removed”. Moreover, using their natural wit, they can be very caustic, “opening their eyes” to others.

Zigzags simply cannot work in well-structured situations. They are annoyed by clear vertical and horizontal connections, strictly fixed responsibilities and constant ways of working. In their work, they require independence from others and a high level of stimulation in the workplace. Then the ZigZag "comes to life" and begins to fulfill its main purpose - to generate new ideas and methods of work.

Zigzags are idealists, hence their traits such as impracticality and naivety originate.

Zigzag is the most excitable of the five patterns. They are unrestrained, very expressive, which, along with their eccentricity, often prevents them from putting their ideas into practice. In addition, they are not strong in working out specific details and are not too persistent in bringing things to the end (since with the loss of novelty, interest in the idea is also lost).

Psychogeometry was formed as a system in the USA, and its creator is Susan Dellinger. The psychogeometric test allows you to instantly determine the typology of a person's personality, characterize personal qualities and create a scenario for a person's behavior in standard situations. Pass the psychogeometric test Dellinger can be online in a few minutes, and the diagnostic accuracy will be about 85%.

Psychogeometric psychology test

Look carefully at the five shapes: rectangle, square, circle, triangle, zigzag. Choose from them the one that best suits you. Try to become aware of your form. If you cannot choose, then mark the figure that first caught your eye. Now rank the remaining figures by writing their names under the correct numbers.

Interpretation of the Dellinger psychometric test

The figure that you chose first will determine the main, dominant features of your character and behavior. The other four figures are modulators that influence the main line of your behavior. The figure to which you assigned the last fifth number will characterize the person with whom it is most difficult for you to find a common language.

Square.

Tireless workers who have chosen this figure, they are characterized by perseverance, zeal, a desire to bring any work begun to the end. These people love to collect all kinds of data, the constant need for information, patience, diligence and endurance make them highly qualified specialists in their field. The strength of the Square is the ability for mental analysis, the ability to give out the necessary information almost instantly. People who choose a square are most often left-brained, that is, those who process information sequentially. They are very attentive to details, love order, dream of a planned life. Such people can be excellent technicians and administrators, but the work of managers is not for them, the need for accurate and detailed information deprives these people of efficiency in making decisions. Emotional dryness, rationality and conservatism in decision-making prevent Squares from establishing contacts.

Triangle

This is a symbol of a leader, such people are able to highlight the main goals, set specific goals for themselves and, as a rule, achieve them. Triangles are also left hemisphere and are able to deeply and quickly analyze the situation. But unlike Squares, who are interested in details, Triangles are focused on the essence of the situation. The need to manage the situation, to be always right makes such a person constantly competing with others, working only to win. Triangles quickly learn new things, absorbing knowledge like a sponge. Such people are often impatient and do not like those who hesitate in their decisions, they are extremely ambitious. Squares want to reach best quality their work, and Triangles strive to achieve high status. The main negative quality of these people is egocentrism, which does not allow them to be especially scrupulous on the way to the top.

Rectangle

This figure symbolizes the transitional state of the individual, so they are characterized by inconsistency and unpredictability. These people can change a lot in one day. They often have low self-esteem, but they need to communicate with other people, although others may shy away from interacting with such a malleable person. At the same time, Rectangles are inquisitive, bold, open to everything new. Such people are easily suggestible, the mime is easy to manipulate.

A circle

This symbol speaks of harmony and the desire to establish good interpersonal relationships, the highest value for the Circle is people. He is the one who holds the work team together, knows how to listen, has a high degree empathy, perceiving the pain of others as their own. Such people do not like conflicts and tend to be the first to give in, their motto is "If only there was no war." Those who choose the Circle belong to the right hemisphere, they rely more on intuition, most of all they pay attention to subjective moments - feelings, values. Such people can find common ground even in opposing points of view; they are born psychologists. But the lack of organizational skills inherent in the Triangle and the methodicalness of the Square will prevent the Circle from becoming the head of a serious business.

Zigzag

Those who choose such a symbol have creative, creative thinking. If a person firmly chooses a zigzag, then he is a dissident, he is characterized by intuitiveness, imagery. Zigzag thoughts are often misunderstood by left brain rational Triangles and Squares. Such people do not concentrate on details, they see beauty as a whole, their aesthetic sense is very developed. But the Zigzags do not seek to reach a consensus, they want a conflict of ideas, contradictions, in order to bring something new out of there. They don't like routine monotony, people trembling because of status or agreeing for the sake of appearance. Zigzags cannot work where there is a clear structure, they need independence like air. This sign is the most excitable and enthusiastic, it is a symbol of idealists, such people are expressive and eccentric. But specific details and trifles are not for them, they cannot be too persistent, which prevents them from bringing all their ideas to life.

It may happen that no figure suits you completely. In this case, a combination of two or even three figures can describe your personality.

GEOMETRIC TEST.

Here are the geometric shapes:

Look at them very carefully. Try to feel them as yourself. Which of the figures is closer to you, dearer? About which of the figures can you say: "That's exactly me."

The chosen figure represents you. Now read what your choice says.

SQUARE.

If your main figure turned out to be the Square, then you are a tireless worker. Diligence, diligence, the need to bring the work begun to the end, perseverance, allowing you to achieve completion of the work - these are the main qualities of true Squares. Endurance, patience and methodicalness usually make the Square a highly qualified specialist in his field. This is facilitated by an insatiable need for information.

All the information that they have is systematized and sorted. The square is able to give the necessary information instantly. Therefore, the Squares are deservedly known as erudite, at least in their field. If you have chosen a Square for yourself - a linear figure, then most likely you belong to the "left hemisphere" thinkers, i.e. those who process data in a sequential format: a-b-c-d ...

Squares "calculate the result" rather than guessing about it. Squares are extremely attentive to details, details. Squares love once and for all routine. Their ideal is a planned, predictable life, and he does not like changing the usual course of events. He constantly "orders", organizes people and things around him. All these qualities contribute to the fact that Squares can become good specialists - technicians, excellent administrators, but - rarely - are good managers.

Excessive predilection for details, the need for clarifying information for decision-making deprive the Square of efficiency. Neatness, observance of rules, etc., can develop to a paralyzing extreme.

In addition, rationality, emotional dryness, conservatism in assessments prevent Squares from quickly establishing contacts with different people. Squares are ineffective in an amorphous situation.

TRIANGLES.

This shape symbolizes leadership, and many Triangles feel this is their destiny. The most characteristic feature of the true Triangle is the ability to concentrate on the main goal. They are energetic, strong personalities. In the Luscher test, they often prefer green and draw a Christmas tree when asked to draw a tree.

Triangles, like their relatives, Squares, are linear shapes and tend to also be "left-brained" thinkers, able to analyze situations deeply and quickly. However, in contrast to Squares, which are focused on details, Triangles focus on the main thing, on the essence of the problem.

Their strong pragmatic orientation directs mental analysis and limits it to the search for an effective solution to the problem under given conditions.

Triangle is a very confident person who wants to be right about everything! The need to be right and the need to manage the state of affairs, to decide not only for oneself, but, if possible, for others - makes the Triangle a person who is constantly competing, competing with others. Triangles have a hard time admitting their mistakes! We can say that they see what they want to see, do not like to change their decisions, are often categorical, do not recognize objections.

Fortunately (for them and those around them), Triangles learn quickly and successfully (soak up useful information like a sponge). True, only what corresponds to their pragmatic orientation contributes (from their point of view) to the achievement of the main goal. Triangles are ambitious.

If it is a matter of honor for the Square to achieve the highest quality of the work performed, then the Triangle seeks to achieve a high position, to acquire a high status, in other words, to make a career.

Triangles make great managers. The main negative quality of a "triangular" personality: strong egocentrism, focus on oneself. On the way to the heights of power, they do not show particular scrupulousness in relation to moral standards. Triangles make everything and everyone revolve around them... Maybe life would lose its sharpness without them.

RECTANGLES.

This figure symbolizes the state of transition and change. This is a temporary form of personality that the other four relatively stable figures can "wear" at certain periods of life. These are people who are not satisfied with the way of life that they lead now, and therefore are busy looking for a better position.

The reasons for the "rectangular" state can be very different, but one thing unites them - the significance of changes for a particular person. The main mental state of the Rectangle is a more or less conscious state of confusion, entanglement in problems and uncertainty about oneself at this point in time.

The most characteristic features of Rectangles are inconsistency and unpredictability of actions during the transition period. They tend to have low self-esteem. They strive to become better in something, they are looking for new methods of work, lifestyles.

Quick, abrupt and unpredictable changes in the behavior of the Rectangle usually confuse and alarm other people, and they may deliberately shy away from contact with the "man without a core". Rectangles, on the other hand, need to communicate with other people, and this is another difficulty of the transition period.

However, the Rectangle also has positive qualities that attract others to it: curiosity, inquisitiveness, a keen interest in everything that happens and ... courage! During this period, they are open to new ideas, values, ways of thinking and living, they easily learn everything new. True, the reverse side of this is excessive gullibility, suggestibility. Therefore Rectangles are easy to manipulate.

"Rectangularity" is just a stage. She will pass!

CIRCLES.

The circle is a mythological symbol of harmony. The one who confidently chooses it is sincerely interested above all in good interpersonal relationships. The highest value for the Circle is people.

The circle is the most benevolent of the five shapes. He most often serves as the "glue" that holds both the work team and the family together, that is, it stabilizes the group. Circles are the best communicators primarily because they are the best listeners. They have high sensitivity, developed empathy - the ability to empathize.

Circles perfectly "read" people and in one minute are able to recognize a pretender, a deceiver. Circles "cheer" for their team and are popular among work colleagues. However, they tend to be weak managers and leaders in business. First, Circles are about people rather than business. In an attempt to keep the peace, they sometimes avoid taking a "hard" stance and making unpopular decisions.

For the Circle, there is nothing more difficult than to enter into interpersonal conflict. They try to avoid it at all costs. Sometimes, to the detriment of the cause. Secondly, Circles are generally not distinguished by determination, often they cannot present themselves properly. Triangles, as a rule, easily take over them. However, the Circles are not too worried about who holds the power.

In one, the Circles show enviable firmness - when it comes to moral issues or violations of justice.

The circle is a non-linear form, and those who confidently identify with the circle are more likely to be "right hemisphere" thinkers. "Right hemispheric" thinking is more imaginative, intuitive, emotionally colored, more integrative than analyzing. Therefore, the processing of information by the Circles is carried out not in a sequential format, but rather in a mosaic, with breakthroughs with omissions of individual links. This does not mean that Krug is at odds with logic. Just formalism they do not receive priority in solving life's problems.

The main features in their thinking are an orientation towards the subjective factors of the problem (values, assessments, feelings, etc.) and the desire to find common ground even in opposing points of view. We can say that the Circle is a born psychologist. However, he is often a weak organizer - he lacks the "left hemisphere" skills of his "linear brothers" - the Triangle and the Square.

ZIGZAGS.

This figure symbolizes creativity, if only because it is the most unique of the five figures and the only open figure. If you firmly chose the Zigzag as the main shape, then you are most likely a true "right-brain" thinker, a dissident.

You, like your closest relative - the Circle, only to an even greater extent, are characterized by figurativeness, intuitiveness, integrativity, mosaicism.

Strict, consistent deduction is not your style. Zigzag thought makes desperate jumps from "a" to "z", so it is difficult for many "left-brained" people to understand Zigzags.

"Right hemispheric" thinking is not fixed on the details, therefore, by simplifying the picture of the world in some way, it allows you to build holistic, harmonious concepts and images, to see beauty. Zigzags usually have a developed aesthetic sense.

The dominant thinking style of the ZigZag is most often the synthetic style. Unlike Circles, Zigzags are not at all interested in consensus and achieve synthesis not through concessions, but, on the contrary, by sharpening the conflict of ideas and building a new concept in which this conflict is resolved, “removed”. Moreover, using their natural wit, they can be very caustic, "opening the eyes" of others.

Zigzags simply cannot work in well-structured situations. They are annoyed by clear vertical and horizontal connections, strictly fixed responsibilities and constant ways of working. In their work, they require independence from others and a high level of stimulation in the workplace. Then the ZigZag "comes to life" and begins to fulfill its main purpose - to generate new ideas and methods of work.

Zigzags are idealists, hence their traits such as impracticality and naivety originate.

Zigzag is the most excitable of the five patterns. They are unrestrained, very expressive, which, along with their eccentricity, often prevents them from putting their ideas into practice. In addition, they are not strong in working out specific details and are not too persistent in bringing things to the end (since with the loss of novelty, interest in the idea is also lost).