RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Beyond Persona Research Foundation

Beyond Persona is a research-grounded personality analysis platform whose measured results are explained by AI.

Big Five / BFAS / NEO-related trait research

Jungian cognitive functions

Metacognition and self-awareness

Locus of control and bias awareness

Literature-grounded design

BP connects its layers to established areas in personality psychology, cognitive preference, metacognition, locus of control, and bias awareness.

Measurement first

Assessment responses are first mapped into 36 axes and 4 layers; AI then explains the measured result in natural language.

Clear evidence ladder

Literature grounding, internal quality audits, beta test-retest reliability, external validity studies, and peer review are separate evidence stages. BP presents them as separate public evidence stages. Synthetic example 01 is a software reproducibility record. Read it separately from literature-based design, reliability and validity studies with real users, and peer-reviewed evidence.

PUBLIC ACADEMIC MAPPING

Partial Public Academic Mapping

This describes reviewed connections between concepts and literature. A literature connection does not itself validate BP empirically.

Layer	BP meaning	Research category	Public use	Boundary
Ground	Ground covers innate temperament: behavioral tendencies that recur across different situations.	Big Five, BFAS, NEO-related trait and facet research	Defines the semantic range of stable tendency axes	BP results are not one-to-one conversions from Big Five scores
Lens	Lens covers cognitive preferences in taking in information and making judgments.	Jungian type theory, cognitive style, and decision-preference research	Supports explanations about thinking and decision style	BP should not be called an MBTI cognitive-function test
Mirror	Mirror covers metacognition: noticing and examining one's own reactions and ways of thinking.	Metacognitive awareness, self-awareness, locus of control, and bias-awareness literature	Grounds self-understanding and defensive-pattern explanations	Not a clinical diagnosis or therapy assessment
Resonance	Resonance (Trait Combination) cross-analyzes the 36 traits measured across the three layers, crossing traits within the same layer as well as across layers. It is separate from relationship analysis, which compares two people.	This is BP's design for reading Ground, Lens and Mirror together.	Its conceptual explanation is separate from testing with real users.	Interpersonal research is not substituted for empirical evidence of intrapersonal integration.

Focus

Focus concerns the temperamental tendency to keep attention on one thing for a long time. Attention-system and task-absorption research provide conceptual background. These sources do not validate BP's items or scores.

Posner & Petersen (1990). The Attention System of the Human Brain
The publisher's introduction preview was reviewed for conceptual discussion of attention systems. The full article was not reviewed. This is not validation of BP's items or scores.
Susan A. Jackson. The Flow Scales
The author's overview was reviewed for task absorption and the concentration dimension. It is not the full 2002 paper and does not validate BP's items or scores.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Beyond Persona peer-reviewed?

At this stage, the accurate wording is research-grounded personality analysis platform with public methodology and planned validation reporting. Peer review and clinical validation are separate evidence stages.

What does research-grounded mean?

It means the model design is connected to established research areas. External psychometric validation is a separate evidence stage.

Where is AI used?

AI is used to write explanations from the measured result. The assessment responses remain the measurement source.

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