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Words for what you already do

Profile tests, one theme at a time: love, work, politics, emotions. Four minutes of questions, and you get a written report that explains why you react the way you react.

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  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Oxford
  • MIT
  • Columbia University
  • Yale University
  • Princeton University
  • UC Berkeley
  • London School of Economics
  • Sciences Po

Institutions shown to illustrate where the analysis methods used by Civix are taught.

Choose your test

A test for each area of your life. Each takes four minutes and reveals your archetype, with a personalised report.

What you receive

The report for the theme you take, then everything the member area adds to it.

Your report at a glance

Your profile

The Architect of the Everyday

Sample report

StructureAuthorityWarmthEmotionsAutonomyExpectations

In your report

You organise a legible daily life, where each thing has its moment, and you readily explain what your rules rest on. That predictability spares your child permanent negotiation and spares you arbitrariness. It has a cost you know: the unforeseen costs you more than it costs others, and sometimes the organisation has to be defended for its own sake, once everyone has forgotten what it was for.

Continued in your full report

Fifteen quizzes per theme

Knowledge questions, marked and explained, with the answer commented and what it teaches.

Question 1 of 7Attachment theory

Who formulated attachment theory?

  • John Bowlby
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Carl Rogers
  • Jean Piaget

The explanation

The British psychiatrist John Bowlby set it out from the 1950s onwards, then in the Attachment and Loss trilogy, whose first volume appeared in 1969.

A full course for each quiz

To go further than the correction: where the notion comes from, what is established, what remains disputed.

5 parts · 15 chapters

Understanding attachment theory

Born from the observation of children separated from their parents, attachment theory has become, in sixty years, a vocabulary of love life. This course retraces what it actually establishes, by what methods, and where what it allows one to conclude stops.

Course outline

  1. 01Birth of a theory
  2. 02The strange situation
  3. 03From the cradle to the couple
  4. 04What the theory does not say
  5. 05What remains solid

How a profile is established

Each theme measures its own dimensions and describes its own profiles. The protocol that establishes them meets the same requirements throughout.

  1. 01

    You answer

    A series of statements, one answer each time, on a scale of agreement. About four minutes.

  2. 02

    The model places your answers

    Each answer feeds six independent dimensions. Your position on each is compared with that of other respondents.

  3. 03

    You receive your profile

    The profile you are closest to among twelve, the family it belongs to, and what sets you apart from it.

Three real statements from the test, with their scale and axes. Answer to see where you stand.

Question 1 of 3

« The state should cut its spending and leave more room for private initiative. »

Your answer

RegulationMarket

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« I thought I knew myself. The report named tensions I could not put into words. I was struck by how fine it was. »
CCamille, 29The Green Solidarist
★★★★★
« I recognised things I had never managed to put into words. Above all the part about what I call a lack. »
MMarion, 27The Absolute Romantic
★★★★★
« I have always been told nothing affects me. The report explains the difference between feeling nothing and showing nothing. »
VVictor, 36The Calm Pillar
★★★★★
« I have been called rigid for ten years. The report explains what regularity gains, and what it costs, without deciding for me. »
SSophie, 38The Architect of the Everyday
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« “You never quite know who would come and see you if you stopped organising.” I read the sentence three times. »
HHelen, 34The Organiser
★★★★★
« I was told for years that I could not work in a team. The report explains that it is not the same dimension. That was a relief. »
VVictor, 35The Convinced Independent
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« At last something other than a simple left-right axis. The nuances by dimension are genuinely relevant. »
TThomas, 41The Pragmatic Reformer
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« I have often been told I am distant. The report explains better than I can why that has nothing to do with indifference. »
AAdrian, 34The Faithful Independent
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« I thought I was too sensitive. Here it is described as a mode of perception, not a flaw, and that changes everything. »
NNadia, 29The Antenna
★★★★★
« I expected a lecture about being too present. The text describes, it does not correct. »
KKarim, 41The Attentive Watcher
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« I thought I was a bad friend because I never write. The report explains the difference between not writing and not caring. »
SSamir, 29The Quiet Watcher
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« A test that does not push me to drop everything and go solo. For that alone it stands out. »
IInes, 42The Methodical Builder
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« I shared my profile and we compared all evening among friends. We recognised ourselves, it was unsettling. »
IInes, 34The Progressive Liberal
★★★★★
« The part about what we keep to ourselves had a strange effect on me. I read it twice. »
SSarah, 31The Keeper of the Bond
★★★★★
« The part on what clarity costs stopped me short. I had never seen it put into words. »
RRoman, 44The Inner Analyst
★★★★★
« The part on how much energy welcoming emotions takes made me put the phone down. That is exactly it. »
EElodie, 35The Shelter
★★★★★
« Two friends in all, and a test that does not tell me to find more. That is a first. »
MManon, 41The Other Half
★★★★★
« “A path that only tells well after the event.” That is exactly what I am reproached for in interviews. »
MMehdi, 31The Avowed Opportunist

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