Self-Interest and Fairness Test
People can care about fairness and still make choices that favor themselves. This test explores how you navigate that tension across five everyday areas.
Rather than assigning a dark label, the profile separates justification, entitlement, strategic influence, attention to others’ costs and fairness. The differences can tell a more useful story than one total.
Answer each statement with the situations you recognize. Your free result gives a five-area summary, while the optional analysis links the scores to your individual choices.
What your answers explore
Justifying self-serving choices
How readily self-interest becomes easier to defend.
Expecting special treatment
How strongly you feel owed priority, credit or flexibility.
Using influence strategically
How often relationships and information are treated as leverage.
Distance from others’ costs
How much another person’s inconvenience enters your decision.
Fairness and accountability
How much you consider reciprocity, shared credit and consequences.
A closer look at your responses
The optional detailed report connects the separate scores to your selected answers. It gives an interpretation for each area, a complete response review and reflection prompts based on the situations covered here.
Similar scores can come from different answers. Looking at the item-level review can show whether one particular situation shaped your result or whether several experiences pointed in the same direction.
Free test and basic information
You can take all 50 questions and read the basic information for free. An optional premium analysis is available as a one-time purchase. It adds the full area-by-area interpretation, personal answer review, downloadable report and the companion e-book The Trade-Off: Choices, Motives and Fairness.
How to take the test
Answer each statement with the situations you recognize. Your free result gives a five-area summary, while the optional analysis links the scores to your individual choices.
Choose one response for every statement. Answer from recent experience rather than what you think the ideal response should be. If your answer changes by setting, choose the option that best reflects the situations you considered.
How to read your result
Each area is scored independently from 0 to 100. Scores do not need to add up to 100, and the bands describe the statements in this set rather than a population ranking. The detailed report explains the interpretation matched to each area and keeps your answers available for review.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the test free?
The questionnaire and basic information are free. The premium detailed analysis is optional.
What does the detailed report add?
It shows your area interpretations, the answers behind them, reflection prompts and a downloadable personal report with the companion e-book.
How many questions are included?
This version contains 50 original questions. Most people will need around 12 minutes.
