Discover the environments, cultures and people where your soul naturally flourishes. It’s 100% free, we just want to help connect you to others like you.
Step 1: Take the Quiz
Takes under 12 minutes, 60 questions. We do not have access to your answers, so take a screenshot of your result and feel free to share it.
Step 2: Read Your Assessment
You’ll get a full description of your temperament, including strengths, blind spots, saints, historical figures, lifestyle, and social preferences. Not sure you got the right one? Check out the rest here.
Step 3: Join our Guest List
Now that you know your tribe, let us connect you with people like you, still 100% free. We curate introductions for guests, Dinners for 12, local gatherings, group trips, and tribe-based experiences near you:
Social Temperament Explanation
One Catholic thinks tequila shots are scandalous, another hosts Theology on Tap, both genuinely pursuing holiness.
So we created a Quiz.
The quiz is simply trying to map the different cultural and social environments that different Catholics feel comfortable in.
We have 2 axis:
X Axis: SENT OUT ↔ SET APART
Some Catholics naturally gravitate toward environments that are SENT OUT, highly engaged with culture, diverse social settings, public life, hospitality and evangelization.
Others naturally gravitate toward environments that are more SET APART, emphasizing reverence, silence, simplicity, modesty, discipline and clear boundaries.
Y Axis: RUSTIC ↔ COSMOPOLITAN
Some Catholics feel most alive around simplicity, nature, slower rhythms, practical life, local community, ranches, simplicity, tradition, and grounded culture. Others feel energized by cities, diversity, fashion, art, intellectual life, travel, sophistication, ambition, business, nightlife, and complex social environments.
And perhaps one of the painful realities many young Catholics experience today is this: sometimes we keep trying to force deep friendship, community, or romantic compatibility with people who are genuinely GOOD Catholics… but who simply speak an entirely different cultural or social language than we do.
Different convictions around modesty, romance, nightlife, affection, alcohol, emotional expression, masculinity, femininity, fitness culture, family culture, and social boundaries. Compatibility for friendship, and even more importantly, for marriage, is not just about theology…it’s also about social temperament.
The 6 Possible Results
And so, there are 6 temperaments (with a shade of a 7th).
- A1: Worship Leaders
- A2: Tradition Keepers
- B1: Community Builders
- B2: Hosts
- C1: Adventurers
- C2: Culture Setters
The 7th is less clear cut area, an M Temperament ( M1 / M2), these are Catholics so close to several quadrants that it is often difficult to fit in in any of them, but can adapt to several, these are the “Catholic Misfits” sections, they are often able to serve as bridges between tribes.
This is why we’re called Society of the 12:
6 temperaments x 2 genders = 12 tribes
We hope these help people better understand themselves, understand where they naturally fit in socially, what dinners, hangouts, trips, events they’d likely enjoy more, to build stronger friendships, relationships, communities, and missions, with greater awareness of their own Social Temperament.
Once you take the quiz, don’t forget to join our Guest List to be considered for curated introductions and events near you:
The Social Temperaments are an informal Society of the 12 framework for understanding social preferences and environments, and are not an based on any official classifications or spiritual assessments.
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