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The Proust Questionnaire: Team Personality Profile
A modernized version of the classic Proust Questionnaire — used by media teams, HR and culture leads, and creative agencies to build candid personality profiles for onboarding pages, podcast intros, or team retrospectives. Closed questions capture the classic prompts verbatim; the AI follow-up interview digs into whichever answer sounds most emotionally loaded to surface the real story behind it.
Sample questions
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15 questions · ~8 min
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which living person do you admire most, and why?
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What is your greatest extravagance?
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On what occasion, if any, do you lie?
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What is your greatest regret so far?
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What is your motto, or the personal rule you try to live by?
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How comfortable did you feel answering these questions honestly?
Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Not comfortable at allMax:Extremely comfortable
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AI Interview
Identify whichever of this person's answers carries the most emotional weight — likely their greatest fear, their greatest regret, or their motto — and gently dig into the real story behind it: what specific memory or moment shaped that answer, why it still matters to them, and how it shows up in how they actually behave day to day. If an answer was guarded or joked away, ask once more with warmth but don't push if they decline.
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That's the full set — thank you for being candid. Your answers will only be used to build the personality profile or team feature this survey was created for, and won't be shared outside that context without your knowledge.
Q14
Dropdown
Which team or department are you part of? (Prefer not to say is fine.)
- (Replace with Team A)
- (Replace with Team B)
- (Replace with Team C)
- Other
- Prefer not to say
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Multiple Choice
How long have you been with the organization?
- Less than 1 year
- 1-3 years
- 4-7 years
- 8+ years
- Prefer not to say
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Captures every classic Proust Questionnaire prompt verbatim, from 'perfect happiness' to 'greatest regret,' so the historical format stays intact
- Adds an AI follow-up interview that automatically identifies whichever answer sounds most emotionally loaded and probes for the real story behind it, something a static form can't do
- Includes a self-rated comfort/honesty scale plus department and tenure questions, so culture and HR leads can segment candid personality data by team
- Closes with a transparent chat message explaining how answers will be used, and produces an auto-generated report from the full response set
Jotform
The Proust Questionnaire Form TemplateA ready-to-field form template that reproduces the classic Proust Questionnaire prompts for collecting personality responses. It's built on Jotform's drag-and-drop form builder with standard field types, so it's easy to customize visually but functions as a static intake form. There's no mechanism to probe deeper into any individual answer.
What it does well
- Fielding-ready out of the box
- Easy visual customization via Jotform's builder
- Familiar, low-friction form format for respondents
Where it falls short
- No adaptive follow-up questioning — every respondent sees the same fixed prompt list
- No per-response emotional or quality scoring
- No transparent, publishable methodology for how responses are interpreted
Typeform
The Proust Questionnaire FormTypeform's version delivers the same classic questionnaire in its signature one-question-at-a-time conversational interface, which suits the reflective, personal nature of the prompts. It's a polished, fielding-ready static form, but like Jotform's version it asks a fixed question set with no ability to dig deeper into any particular answer.
What it does well
- Conversational, one-at-a-time UI fits the introspective tone of the questions
- Fielding-ready and visually polished out of the box
- Broad integration ecosystem typical of Typeform
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI follow-up to surface the story behind emotionally loaded answers
- No automated per-response quality or emotional-weight scoring
- No voice-based interview option
SurveySparrow
Personality Quiz TemplateThis is a general personality-quiz template rather than a Proust Questionnaire-specific one, so it covers similar territory — self-reflective personality questions — without replicating the classic prompt set. It's a fielding-ready quiz format built for scored/typed personality outcomes rather than open-ended candid storytelling.
What it does well
- Quiz-style scoring may appeal to teams wanting a typed personality result
- Fielding-ready template within SurveySparrow's builder
- Supports the light, engaging quiz format many teams prefer for onboarding
Where it falls short
- Not the classic Proust Questionnaire — a generic personality quiz format instead
- No adaptive AI interview to follow up on emotionally significant answers
- No transparent prompt disclosure or automated qualitative report generation
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