MRDA'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 MRDA's.

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

Dominant Traits

80% of people agree that MRDA is intelligent

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (20%) calm (0%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (20%) complex (40%) confident (20%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (40%) independent (40%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (80%) introverted (20%) kind (20%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (20%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (40%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (20%) proud (20%) quiet (0%) reflective (40%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (20%) trustworthy (40%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (20%)

Description Breakdown (5 people)

Rebecca thinks: kind, witty, self-conscious, intelligent, trustworthy, caring.
michellinator thinks: idealistic, intelligent, reflective, confident, tense.
Ellie thinks: intelligent, introverted, clever, observant, reflective.
kasku thinks: intelligent, independent, logical, observant, complex, idealistic.
NewEdition thinks: brave, independent, proud, trustworthy, complex, powerful.

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> independent, intelligent, introverted, observant, proud, tense</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> brave, caring, clever, complex, confident, idealistic, kind, logical, powerful, reflective, self-conscious, 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> </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, accepting, adaptable, bold, calm, cheerful, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, ingenious, knowledgeable, loving, mature, modest, nervous, organised, patient, quiet, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, warm, wise</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>80% of people agree that MRDA is intelligent <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (0%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (20%) calm (0%) caring (20%) cheerful (0%) clever (20%) complex (40%) confident (20%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (40%) independent (40%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (80%) introverted (20%) kind (20%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (20%) loving (0%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (40%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (20%) proud (20%) quiet (0%) reflective (40%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (20%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (20%) trustworthy (40%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (20%) <div style="border:1px solid #000; padding:8px; text-align:center;background:#eee"> Created by the <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">Interactive Johari Window</a> on 26.2.2025, using data from 5 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=MRDA">view MRDA'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.