Patent US 5,696,981

Devices and methods for analyzing a subject's personality are provided using an automated personality analyzer. A subject's responses to a predefined quiz, responses to flashcards, a monograph, or a monologue, is used to determine the subject's likely personality type. The subject's choice and usage of words, and in particular certain "key words", are categorized, scored, and weighted in accordance with an aspect of the invention. The sums of these weighted scores are used to compare the subject to predefined pure personality type, so as to gain insight to the subject's psychological state and personality.