OSH1990'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 OSH1990's.

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

Dominant Traits

75% of people think that OSH1990 is trustworthy

All Percentages

able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (25%) caring (50%) cheerful (25%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (25%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (50%) idealistic (0%) independent (50%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (50%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (25%) loving (0%) mature (25%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (25%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (25%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (75%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%)

Description Breakdown (4 people)

Cindy thinks: able, logical, observant, relaxed, trustworthy.
macy9559 thinks: caring, helpful, kind, trustworthy, cheerful, friendly.
19901314 thinks: intelligent, kind, helpful, caring, independent.
3unj1 thinks: calm, independent, intelligent, mature, 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> able, calm, caring, cheerful, helpful, independent, intelligent, kind, logical, mature, observant, relaxed, trustworthy</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> happy, nervous, searching, sensible, shy</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> accepting, adaptable, bold, brave, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, giving, idealistic, ingenious, introverted, knowledgeable, loving, modest, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, religious, responsive, self-assertive, self-conscious, sentimental, silly, spontaneous, sympathetic, tense, warm, wise, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>75% of people think that OSH1990 is trustworthy <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (25%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (0%) calm (25%) caring (50%) cheerful (25%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (25%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (50%) idealistic (0%) independent (50%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (50%) introverted (0%) kind (50%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (25%) loving (0%) mature (25%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (25%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (25%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (75%) warm (0%) wise (0%) witty (0%) <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 9.6.2026, using data from 4 respondents. You can <a href="https://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="https://kevan.org/johari?view=OSH1990">view OSH1990'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.