Regarding your thought about subtle personality tests: I find the attachment styles model a fairly powerful predictor of personality, and particularly suitable for dating. It seems to me that people fall into one of the four attachment styles quite reliably, it is fairly easy to know which one and the correlates of each style are easy to remember.
This is interesting, thanks for the link. The model seems to be partly based on one’s assessment of self-worth as compared to their partner. Based on this I’d expect to see a person exhibit different styles depending on who they’re dating, though this effect could be diminished by acclimation. This might account for some portion of the 20-30% of people who change styles. Is this explored in the literature? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding and the self- and other-assessments are purely positive or negative and not at all comparative.
Also I tried searching for frequencies of the four styles in the population and wasn’t able to find anything. Do you know if that’s available anywhere? Or even better, how the styles are distributed (are there strong clusters or are most people borderline as with MBTI?).
Regarding your thought about subtle personality tests: I find the attachment styles model a fairly powerful predictor of personality, and particularly suitable for dating. It seems to me that people fall into one of the four attachment styles quite reliably, it is fairly easy to know which one and the correlates of each style are easy to remember.
This is interesting, thanks for the link. The model seems to be partly based on one’s assessment of self-worth as compared to their partner. Based on this I’d expect to see a person exhibit different styles depending on who they’re dating, though this effect could be diminished by acclimation. This might account for some portion of the 20-30% of people who change styles. Is this explored in the literature? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding and the self- and other-assessments are purely positive or negative and not at all comparative.
Also I tried searching for frequencies of the four styles in the population and wasn’t able to find anything. Do you know if that’s available anywhere? Or even better, how the styles are distributed (are there strong clusters or are most people borderline as with MBTI?).