Indref's Johari Window

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.

You can get your own Johari Window, or contribute to Indref's.

	Known to Self	Not Known to Self
Known to Others	Arena friendly	Blind Spot accepting brave cheerful clever idealistic knowledgeable loving silly spontaneous trustworthy witty
Not Known to Others	Façade complex independent ingenious introverted reflective	Unknown able adaptable bold calm caring confident dependable dignified energetic extroverted giving happy helpful intelligent kind logical mature modest nervous observant organised patient powerful proud quiet relaxed religious responsive searching self-assertive self-conscious sensible sentimental shy sympathetic tense warm wise
(Hover over a word to see how many people chose it.)

Dominant Traits

100% of people think that Indref is accepting
66% of people think that Indref is cheerful
66% of people think that Indref is silly
66% of people think that Indref is trustworthy

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (100%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (33%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (66%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (33%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (33%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (66%) spontaneous (33%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (66%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (33%)

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Ever thinks: accepting, brave, loving, trustworthy, silly.
Viper thinks: accepting, cheerful, witty, clever, friendly, spontaneous.
Chitterbug thinks: accepting, cheerful, silly, idealistic, knowledgeable, trustworthy.

You can display these results in an email or journal, by cutting and pasting the following HTML:-

<table style="text-align:center;border-spacing:0px; border-collapse:collapse;"> <tr><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#ccf"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Arena</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known to self and others)</div> friendly</td><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#fcc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Blind Spot</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known only to others)</div> accepting, brave, cheerful, clever, idealistic, knowledgeable, loving, silly, spontaneous, trustworthy, witty</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:#cfc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Façade</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known only to self)</div> complex, independent, ingenious, introverted, reflective</td><td style="border:1px solid #000;padding:4px;width:50%;background:#ccc"> <h2 style="margin:0px">Unknown</h2> <div style="font-size:0.7em">(known to nobody)</div> able, adaptable, bold, calm, caring, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, happy, helpful, intelligent, kind, logical, mature, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, self-conscious, sensible, sentimental, shy, sympathetic, tense, warm, wise</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>100% of people think that Indref is accepting 66% of people think that Indref is cheerful 66% of people think that Indref is silly 66% of people think that Indref is trustworthy <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (100%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (33%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (66%) clever (33%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (33%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (0%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (33%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (66%) spontaneous (33%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (66%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (33%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">Interactive Johari Window</a> on 17.6.2026, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=Indref">view Indref's full data</a>. </div>

The Interactive Johari Window was installed and grouted by Kevan, on the 11th of February 2006.
Questions? Check the FAQ.
If you can take criticism, there's also a darker Nohari Window.