Introduction
closenes is a free online dating site based on the five factor personality model or big five personality model. You can still use the site as a psychology tool, take the tests and enjoy the results even if you are not interested in dating.
A true love must have three components: Intimacy, Passion and Commitment. This is what psychologist call Sternberg's triangular theory of love. Passion or physical attraction is the easies part. You will find out how much you are physically attracted to somebody at the first sight. But, Intimacy is the tough part. You have to spend long time with a person to truly know her/him and find out how Intimate you can be. closenes will save your time on this step. You can tell to your date to come and take the test, then compare the result with yours, or you can come here and find a soulmate who can be intimate with you.
The test
Five factor personality test or big five personality test, is the most acceptable personality test among psychologists and it is translated into many languages. At the moment, we have English and Persian in our website.The version that we use consists of 300 questions which gives your very accurate results. It takes about 45 min to answer the test completely. If it is too much for you, don't panic! you can answer as much as you like, then save it and return later to complete the test. Here is a sample:
The Results
The test is called big five or five factor because it finds out your main five personality traits. The big five factor of personality are: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.
You can see them on such a graph:
Each factor can be divided to 6 more refined factors or facets. Your 30 facets will be in a graph like this:
Also you will get a descriptive results which is a short text like this:
You can retake the test, after some times or after some important event of your life and see how your personality changes over time:
Search
If you are not interested in dating, you can stop reading here and go to the site and take the test. But if you are here to find a friend or a soulmate, stay with me a little more.
Our dating site have a nice and detailed search engine. Just tell it what you want and it will find all the matches and sort them according to their personality similarity to you:
You can click on a result and see her/his profile. You can see her/his test result which are compared with yours. The light colored bars belong to you:
Apart from the test result, a profile can have more information:
Messaging
If you liked the profile, you can send a message by clicking on the send message link in the profile. You can send a message up to 1024 letter long and we made it in such a way that you can use ASCII arts to have some more fun:
The in-box is like this:
The user will get such a message, which includes the similarity:
If you didn't get a reply, you can check your sent folder to see what happened to your message, read, starred or trashed. If the subject is bold, it means that it has not been read yet, if there is a star or recycle-bin next to it, it means that you got an star or it has been trashed respectively:
