GET PSYCHED!

Test your personality with these quizzes that come straight from the pros

PERSONALITY quizzes aren’t just games to play on road trips — they were once one of the most valuable tools psychologists used when digging into a patient’s psyche.

“Psychobook” (Princeton Architectural Press, out Tuesday) takes a look at the history of these psychological tests, from inkblots — which gained popularity in the 1950s — to the Digital Dependency Index. These tests are alluring, inane and haunting all at once — and that, says British art critic Mel Gooding, who contributed commentary to the book, is the beauty of them.

“We all feel some kind of threat from the idea that some mechanism is going to reveal things about ourselves that we would prefer to remain secret or private, or that we’d prefer to keep from ourselves,” says Gooding. “That something we’re hiding from ourselves will be revealed [by these tests].”

Readers of “Psychobook” will get a thrill from answering a series of questions — and will possibly uncover what their minds hold. But, Gooding warns, they’re all just games, and they may not do what their inventors claimed.

“We all like thinking that if we color this green, and that blue, that it’ll tell us something about ourselves,” he says. “[But] we know that with this kind of testing, most of it is completely bogus and culture-dependent.”

That doesn’t mean you should disregard this compilation altogether. Simple tests can still provide interesting insight — they just may not carry quite as much significance as those who created them think they do.

Try these two tests from the book — the Color Test and the Drawing Completion Test — and find out what they reveal about your personality with the answer key on the following page.