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Is the Behaviour Snapshot a personality test?
Updated 5 October 2026
No. The Behaviour Snapshot asks how often you have done specific things at work over the last 3 months, on a 7-point frequency scale. It gives you no type and no percentile. It is a self-report of behaviour in one period, and behaviour shifts with circumstances.
What does the Snapshot actually ask?
It has 27 questions. Each asks how often a behaviour has happened over the last 3 months, answered on a 7-point frequency scale. There is no account to create. The result shows your strongest behavioural tension across 9 of our 30 capabilities.
What is the difference between a trait and a behaviour?
A trait is a summary of how someone tends to be. A behaviour is something they did. Research suggests the two relate loosely and context sits between them. Mischel (1968) argued that behaviour varied across situations more than trait scores implied. Fleeson (2001) found a way to hold both views: a person has a characteristic distribution of behaviour, and the moment-to-moment state depends on the situation. Mischel and Shoda (1995) described personality as stable if-then patterns of this kind.
That is why the Snapshot asks about frequency in a stated window. It does not ask who you are.
Can the tendencies change?
Even trait measures move. Roberts and colleagues (2017) reviewed 207 studies and found that trait measures changed during interventions, with an average effect of d = .37 over about 24 weeks. Many of those interventions were clinical, though the review reports change in non-clinical interventions too. It shows that scores on these measures are not fixed for life. The Snapshot makes no prediction about whether yours will change.
How far can a self-report be trusted?
Self-report is the most common assessment method in personality research and a frequent target of criticism (Paulhus and Vazire, 2007). Our version is expert-designed and pre-validation. It is not normed, not peer-reviewed and not predictive. Your results are never shared with an employer.
Where do I find out what it says about me?
Take it and read the result as a description of the last three months of your working life.
Twenty-seven questions and no account.
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See KOZMO Team →Where does this come from?
Mischel, W. (1968). Personality and Assessment. New York: Wiley.
Mischel, W. & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality. Psychological Review, 102(2), 246-268.
Fleeson, W. (2001). Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: traits as density distributions of states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80(6), 1011-1027. PubMed
Roberts, B. W., Luo, J., Briley, D. A., Chow, P. I., Su, R. & Hill, P. L. (2017). A systematic review of personality trait change through intervention. Psychological Bulletin, 143(2), 117-141. doi:10.1037/bul0000088
Paulhus, D. L. & Vazire, S. (2007). The self-report method. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology (pp. 224-239). Guilford Press.