Widman'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 Widman's.

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

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that Widman is caring
66% of people think that Widman is intelligent

All Percentages

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

Description Breakdown (3 people)

Howy thinks: caring, cheerful, warm, wise, loving, intelligent.
KennyWray thinks: able, intelligent, mature, patient, brave, caring.
Nica thinks: quiet, shy, self-conscious, modest, sympathetic.

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> cheerful, mature, quiet</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, brave, caring, intelligent, loving, modest, patient, self-conscious, shy, sympathetic, warm, wise</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> adaptable, logical, nervous</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, bold, calm, clever, complex, confident, dependable, dignified, energetic, extroverted, friendly, giving, happy, helpful, idealistic, independent, ingenious, introverted, kind, knowledgeable, observant, organised, powerful, proud, reflective, relaxed, religious, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, silly, spontaneous, tense, trustworthy, witty</td></tr></table> <h2>Dominant Traits</h2>66% of people think that Widman is caring 66% of people think that Widman is intelligent <h3>All Percentages</h3>able (33%) accepting (0%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (33%) calm (0%) caring (66%) cheerful (33%) clever (0%) complex (0%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (0%) extroverted (0%) friendly (0%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (0%) independent (0%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (66%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (0%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (33%) modest (33%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (33%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (33%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (33%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (33%) silly (0%) spontaneous (0%) sympathetic (33%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (33%) wise (33%) witty (0%) <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 5.2.2025, using data from 3 respondents. You can <a href="http://kevan.org/johari">make your own Johari Window</a>, or <a href="http://kevan.org/johari?view=Widman">view Widman'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.