The Max Luscher Color test

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http://www.colorquiz.com/

Any thoughts on this? As in whether its accurate, by what psychological mechanisms, or whether its just a fortune cookie generator?

sounds like me...at the moment...

Scary how spot on it is.

Color stuff like this tends to be quite accurate if the test taker is honest with the test. I suppose some archetypes are fairly universal.

o.....k... Even works with the suffix to fortune cookies...'in bed'...

Here's something with a fair amount of detail, the table of psychological meanings per colors is at the bottom:

http://www.dreamscience.org/articles/si ... _color.htm

These are my results:

Your Existing Situation

"Inclined to choose luxurious things, which are gratifying to the senses. Turned off by things which are tacky and tasteless."
Your Stress Sources

"Wishes for freedom and independence, free from limitations and restrictions except for the ones he choices to give himself."
Your Restrained Characteristics

Giving more than he is getting back and feels misunderstood and unappreciated. Feels he is being forced into compromising and even his close relationships leave him feeling emotional distant.

Giving more than he is getting back and feels misunderstood and unappreciated. Feels he is being forced into compromising and even his close relationships leave him feeling emotional distant.

"Seeking to broaden his horizons and believes his hopes and dreams are realistic. Worries he may not be able to do the things he wants and needs to escape to a peaceful, quiet environment in order to restore his confidence."

"Seeking to broaden his horizons and believes his hopes and dreams are realistic. Worries he may not be able to do the things he wants and needs to escape to a peaceful, quiet environment in order to restore his confidence."

Conceited and is easily insulted. Holds back emotionally but is able to find satisfaction through sexual activity.

Your Desired Objective

"Not a team player and is unwilling to be involved in most activities. In the past he was over involved and now emotionally drained. Due to his fear of over involvement, he now chooses to remain uninvolved with the activities around him. "
Your Actual Problem

Must protect himself from outside influences or he risks losing his independence and having restrictions placed on him. He wishes to be left alone.


The only one that doesn't seem to fit is that I am conceited and easily insulted and I find satisfaction through sexual activity. I am probably prejudiced about the conceit part but, at the age of almost 84 it's been well over a decade since I've had any actual sexual activity and I don't particularly miss it. Otherwise it seems very accurate. It's amusing I am so transparent to a rather simple test.

OMG I found the results disturbingly accurate:

"Is a little on the lazy side when it comes to putting forth a lot of effort. Needs to build roots and have a peaceful, loving partner."

Your Stress Sources
"Always trying to make a good impression on others, but doubtful he is succeeding. Feels he has the right to everything he hopes and dreams of and becomes annoyed and helpless when things don't go his way. Is troubled by the very thought of failure which leaves him feeling miserable. Always sees himself as the victim as if everyone treats him poorly and he never is given his fair share. Feels his failures are no fault of his own, but due to the shortcomings of others."

Your Restrained Characteristics
Current events leave him feeling forced into compromise in order to avoid being cut off from affection or future cooperation.

Giving more than he is getting back and feels misunderstood and unappreciated. Feels he is being forced into compromising and even his close relationships leave him feeling emotional distant.

Is bothered when his needs and desires are misunderstood and he feels there is no one to turn to or rely on. His self-centered attitude can cause him to be easily offended.

Current situation is leaving him doubtful and cautions about becoming intimately involved with others.
Current situation is leaving him doubtful and cautions about becoming intimately involved with others.


Your Desired Objective
"Searching for complete happiness both physically and emotionally, with no conflict. Looking for a security because he fears loneliness and separation."


Your Actual Problem
"Feeling a lack of energy, he does not wish to be involved in further activity or give in to demands. He is feeling powerless causing him stress, agitation, and irritation, all which he tries to escape by refusing to participate altogether. He needs to escape into an environment which is stable and secure and will allow him to relax and feel more at peace."

Your Actual Problem #2
"Is disappointed and let down, feels there is no point in making new goals as they will leave him feeling the same way. Looking for friendly, pleasant relationships with others, who will further develop his intellect. He needs to escape into an environment which is stable and secure and will allow him to relax and feel more at peace."

Well my results are largely wrong. Worse than a fortune cookie

Your Existing Situation

"Very emotional and artistic, enjoys being surrounded by beauty and art. Looking for a partner who always has an eye for beauty and who enjoys close, loving relationships."
Your Stress Sources

"Feels empty and isolated from others and wishes to overcome this feeling. Believes life has more to offer him than what he was experienced thus far, and doesn't want to miss out on anything. He purses all his goals and dreams, fearful that any missed opportunity will cause him to miss out on even more. Quickly becomes an expert in any field he pursues and can sometimes come off as overbearing and nosy."
Your Restrained Characteristics

Current events leave him feeling forced into compromise in order to avoid being cut off from affection or future cooperation.

Feels trapped in a helpless situation and is desperately seeking relief. He is able to find pleasure and happiness in sexual activity.

"Willing to become emotionally involved, but is demanding and picky when choosing a partner. Is careful not to bring out conflict or disagreements as this may decrease his chances of achieving his goals and ideas."

"Although he feels isolated and alone, he is afraid of forming deep, meaningful relationships. Is conceited and is easily offended."

"Feels trapped in a helpless situation and is desperately seeking relief. He is able to find pleasure and happiness in sexual activity, as long as there is not a lot of conflict or emotional difficulty."

Your Desired Objective

"Looking to make a good impression and be recognized for his achievements. He has a strong need to feel appreciated and look up to. He is very sensitive and will be hurt if he is rejected, unnoticed, or not given adequate acknowledgement."
Your Actual Problem

Afraid he will not be able to achieve the things he wants and demands others recognize and acknowledge this right to them.
Your Actual Problem #2

"Is resistant of outside pressures and control, or anything that stands in the way of his freedom to make his own decisions and plans. Works hard to establish and build his position and status."

That was pretty good. I am usually pretty sceptical of these things.

If choosing the colours once is not enough to gain effective results, then why is two times enough to determine them? And I didn't see anywhere that specified how long the results are good for. Do they just apply to the two moments when the test was taken? Or are we supposed to assume those results reflect who we are for the rest of the week, the rest of the year, will it change when time clicks over into 2010, or is it us for life?

I guess the problem with being able to prove if there is any accuracy heavily relies on having a strong sense of identity - and then seeing how much of it matches. So the best I could do in regards to this is make an estimation. About 2/5 seemed accurate. But that's just a guess. I wouldn't have a clue how to post them into this thread but I suppose that's not relevant anyhow.

As for the process of the test I really really enjoyed it - so thank you. I really loved choosing the colours and was quite amazed how colours that were on offer at the start were not appealing for me but as the options progressively decreased each colour had a turn at being the most appealing. Crazy stuff! haha!

EDIT: Towards the beginning there was one colour in particular that I thought I would never find appealing. And then eventually even that colour had its turn! And guess what! - it wasn't even left till last! Wow! Why is this???

Its measuring how much you change your mind by changing color order.. using that as a data point for your current dissatisfaction with your life. The colors you choose first, last might measure something like your happiness. Warm colors being associated with good feelings. Who knows..

So there are all sorts of ways to collect data. While the colors have no intrinsic meaning, by testing a control group and adjusting the answers, the author can gain ideas about your personality.

I could write a test and administer it to 100 men and 100 women. One question being "what is your favourite color?" Seeing from the results that 97% of the boys choose black and the girls like some other color, when I test someone else I dont have to meet them to get a rough idea of their sex.This is called probability.

You can learn the damnedest things about people in this way.

This whole field of study is called demographics. Its worth big money.

The FBI does crime profiling in a similar way to catch serial killers.

Thanks for that Fuzzy. I guess what I was implying was that I doubt that twice is enough. I'd probably have to take the test every hour of every day for a week to possibly find any patterns. And even then, the next week I'd probably be different again.

But for someone who found the test reflected their identity accurately it would be much easier to consider its validity.

I took the test again and tried not to repeat my color choice series. It still captures a good deal of my personality.

Your Existing Situation

"Craves change and new things, always looking for new adventures and activities. Becomes restless and frustrated when he has to wait to long for things to develop. His impatience leads to irritability and a desire to move on to the next project."
Your Stress Sources

"Seeks freedom and the chance to do as he wishes; avoids restrictions or things that try to hold him back. Feels an intense amount of pressure being put on him and would like a chance to escape in order to do the things he wants and needs to do for himself. However, he lacks the determination and motivation to escape and pursue his own personal gains."
Your Restrained Characteristics

Current events leave him feeling forced into compromise in order to avoid being cut off from affection or future cooperation.

"Although he feels isolated and alone, he is afraid of forming deep, meaningful relationships. Is conceited and is easily offended."

Current situations force him into compromise and placing his own hopes and desires on hold for the time being.

Your Desired Objective

"Highly optimistic and outgoing personality. Loves to learn new and exciting things, and craves new interests. Looking for a well-rounded life full of success and new experiences. Does not allow himself to be overcome with negative thoughts or self-doubt. Takes life head on, with enthusiasm. "
Your Actual Problem

"Fights resistance or limitations, and insists he is free to develop in his own way. Rewarded by accomplishing things on his own, with little to no help from others."
Your Actual Problem #2

"Feeling tension and stress brought on by situations which are out of his control, leaves him feeling helpless, anxious, and in adequate. He escapes the situation by throwing himself into new activities and insisting he get his own way. Appears to be in control of himself, which he isn't, leading to outbursts of anger."



The last paragraph seems a bit off. I don't get angry that often. I usually find it amusing when things don't work out.

did it once and some of the things I got were uncannily accurate. To test it though tried it again, picking the colours using the mindset "I am a happy and social person". Funny thing is most (not all) of the things I got back were fairly true and still kinda loner like. So then I tried again picking colours in an alien order and finally got something that was definitely not me.

I think to test the accuracy of this need some NTs to take it and see what they get.

I took the test again. And now I'm pretty actually -disturbed-. The results seemed to be holding a mirror up to what I think are probably my deepest fears. If I hadn't been so upset by it I would have laughed when it asked me if I wanted to show these results to friends. If anyone saw these results they'd probably consider carting me off to a mental institution. (I'd insert one of those reverse happy faces here if I knew how to. Though it's probably a good thing that I don't know how to because that's the type of thing I would probably start using in excess.)

The results could have been different to yesterday because I spent more time carefully selecting each colour. Whereas yesterday I thought it would give a better indication if I did it as quickly as possible - more of a subconscious thing. This time I noticed having to restrain myself from choosing a colour because I liked the combination of the other ones that would be left without it. I also had to be careful not to choose a colour just because of its position in the formation.

I'm comfortable with the idea that our colour choices could reflect our mood. But I'm still questioning how the order in which we choose the colours can reflect our overall personality. The test asks us to wait 110 seconds inbetween the two sections - but I am suggesting there could be more accuracy if we wait 110 hours.

Yesterday there was a colour there that I thought was going to prevent me from completing the test - I didn't think I'd ever find it appealing. But then, before I knew it - I was finding it more appealing than a few of the other remaining colours. This to me shows how much our minds -and moods- can change. And I hope mine changes soon otherwise my whole life is an utter failure. Seriously - the results today were just plain mean!

I hate to say it - now that I've read what the colors mean its tough to get away from thinking about them in that context. Looks like I might have hosed it for myself :/.