Decision-Making Style Test
How do you actually make up your mind?
Free to take · see your scores free · no sign-up
About this test
Job offers, apartments, restaurant menus, big purchases, group plans — life is a stream of decisions, and you have a signature way of making them. This test walks you through 45 real-life decision scenarios to find your dominant style among five: Rational (lists, comparisons, evidence), Intuitive (gut reads and trained pattern-matching), Consulting (pooling trusted voices before committing), Deliberating (giving choices time to ripen), and Spontaneous (deciding fast and adjusting later). Discover your primary style — and what it wins you, costs you, and where its edge lies.
What you'll discover
Rational
Decides on evidence — lists, comparisons, research, and a night spent with the spreadsheet before committing.
Intuitive
Decides by feel — fast pattern-matching and a trained gut whose verdict arrives before the reasons do.
Consulting
Decides in good company — gathers the perspectives of trusted people and pools their wisdom before committing.
Deliberating
Decides on ripeness — waits, gathers time rather than data, and lets choices mature (or resolve themselves) before calling it.
Spontaneous
Decides in motion — commits fast, course-corrects later, and finds lingering in maybe more costly than the occasional wrong turn.
Understanding the Decision-Making Style Test
The Decision-Making Style Test helps you understand the way you tend to choose when life gives you options, pressure, and trade-offs. Instead of focusing on one-off decisions, it looks at the pattern behind your choices across everyday situations like work, money, plans, and purchases. Your score can show whether you lean toward careful comparison, quick instinct, trusted advice, slow reflection, or fast action.
Your result is useful because decision style shapes more than just the final answer — it affects how confident you feel, how quickly you move, and what kind of mistakes or blind spots you’re most likely to have. Knowing your default style can help you make choices with more self-awareness, especially when the stakes are high or the situation doesn’t match your usual approach.
This test is free to take and gives you your scores at the end. If you want a deeper read on what your result means, you can unlock the full written analysis for more detail on your strengths, trade-offs, and likely decision habits. It’s a practical way to turn a simple score into something you can actually use in daily life.
Where the Decision-Making Style Test comes from
Susanne Scott and Reginald Bruce developed the General Decision Making Style inventory in 1995, identifying five styles that people use in varying combinations.
How the Decision-Making Style Test is scored
Scores across rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant and spontaneous styles. People use several, and the styles are not mutually exclusive — the avoidant style is the one most consistently associated with poorer outcomes.
Evidence
Based on a published, peer-reviewed model
More on how we build and score these tests: our methodology.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Decision-Making Style Test free?
Yes — the test is free to take, and your scores are free to view. If you want the full written analysis, you can unlock it after finishing.
How long does the Decision-Making Style Test take?
It takes about 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You’ll answer 45 real-life scenarios, so it moves quickly while still giving a useful profile.
Is the Decision-Making Style Test accurate or science-based?
It’s a psychometric-style self-assessment designed to help you reflect on your decision habits. It’s best used as a practical insight tool, not as a clinical or medical evaluation.
Do I need an account to take the Decision-Making Style Test?
No account is needed to start the test. You can take it free and see your scores, then choose whether to unlock the full analysis.
What do I get at the end of the Decision-Making Style Test?
You’ll get your score profile showing your dominant decision-making style and how strongly each style appears. The free result shows your scores, and the full written analysis adds a deeper explanation of what your pattern may mean.
No sign-up required.
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