Educational use only. Built on the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, a research instrument. Not a diagnosis. Only a licensed clinician with a full history can diagnose Antisocial Personality Disorder. Full disclaimer at the bottom of the page.

Calibrated · LSRP

The Sociopath Test

Calibrated by the LSRP. Written by a real one.

Twenty-six items, two subscales, scored against the Levenson 1995 norms (487 US undergraduates). Written by the rare author who has the diagnosis the test is built to detect.

26 items
About 4 minutes to complete
2 subscales
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Free to take. Full subscale scores returned free. The complete report is $9.99 if you want the working.

The Two Subscales

Psychopathy is not one trait. The LSRP separates the cold core from the impulsive shell because, in practice, they come apart. The configuration of the two is the diagnostic fact, not the total score.

Primary Psychopathy
Cold core

Callousness, manipulativeness, lack of remorse, the empathic deficit. The construct most people picture when they hear the word.

Secondary Psychopathy
Hot wire

Impulsivity, frustration intolerance, antisocial reactivity, the regulation gap. Often the part that produces real-world consequences.

The four configurations of the two subscales (high/low × high/low) read as four very different patterns in real life. Your result page returns both subscale percentiles and the combined quadrant interpretation.

Who built this

Kanika Rose · Diagnosed ASPD · Author

Most online sociopath tests are written by anonymous SEO operators or by clinical-content sites that have to keep a sterile distance from the construct they’re describing. This one is written by the rare author who has the diagnosis the test is built to detect, working from the published instrument the academic literature uses.

The items track the LSRP source paper closely with light wording adjustments for clarity. The scoring follows Levenson 1995 exactly. The two-subscale split is the field’s, not mine. What you get from me, on top of the instrument, is the result-page interpretation, what the configuration looks like in real life, who actually ends up in each quadrant, and what to do with the score if anything.

Source instrument: Levenson, Kiehl, & Fitzpatrick (1995), “Assessing psychopathic attributes in a noninstitutionalized population.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 68(1), 151-158.

How it works

01

Twenty-six Likert items

Each item is a first-person statement (e.g. 'Looking out for myself is my top priority'). You agree or disagree on a four-point scale. Seven items are reverse-keyed; you do not need to identify them, the scoring handles it.

02

Two-subscale scoring

Sixteen items load on Primary (cold core), ten load on Secondary (impulsive shell). Raw scores are converted to percentiles against the Levenson 1995 college-sample norms (n=487).

03

Quadrant interpretation

The combined read of the two subscales places you in one of four configurations: Functional Self, the Calculator, the Hot Wire, or the Full Pattern. Your result page returns the configuration plus what to do with it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Sociopath Test is a 26-item self-report assessment built on the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP), Levenson, Kiehl & Fitzpatrick 1995. It scores you on two parallel subscales: Primary psychopathy (callousness, manipulativeness, lack of remorse, the cold-core construct) and Secondary psychopathy (impulsivity, frustration-prone reactivity, the regulation gap that produces real-world trouble). Your raw score on each subscale is converted to a percentile against the original college-sample norms (n=487).
No. The LSRP is a research instrument, not a diagnostic one. Only a licensed clinician with a full history can diagnose Antisocial Personality Disorder, the closest thing to a clinical 'sociopath' label in the DSM-5. What this assessment can do is give you a calibrated read of two specific psychopathy constructs (Primary and Secondary) against published research norms, which is genuinely useful for self-recognition. It is not useful for self-labelling and we won't help you use it that way.
Kanika Rose, clinically diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, author of the Sociopathic Dating Bible. The instrument used (LSRP) is the standard non-institutional psychopathy self-report in the academic literature; the items track the source paper closely with light wording adjustments for clarity, and the scoring follows Levenson 1995 exactly. The voice of the landing page and result interpretations is mine; the instrument is the field's. Both have their place.
Primary psychopathy is the cold-core construct: callousness, lack of empathy, manipulativeness, the absence of guilt. Secondary psychopathy is the impulsive shell: frustration intolerance, poor planning, reactive antisocial behaviour. They sometimes co-occur (the full pattern) and sometimes don't (the Calculator, high Primary low Secondary; the Hot Wire, low Primary high Secondary). The two configurations look different in real life and have different recovery trajectories.
The honest answer is: depending on your context, possibly. The 'Full Pattern' configuration, both subscales high or very high, places you in roughly the top 5% of the norm sample on this instrument and is the configuration the LSRP was built to detect. The instrument cannot diagnose you, only a clinician can, but a high score on both subscales is the right signal for considering a diagnostic assessment with a personality-disorder specialist. Your result page lays out the specific options.
It means you have the regulation gap (impulsivity, reactivity, frustration intolerance) without the cold-core empathy deficit. This is not psychopathy in the clinical sense, it's a regulation pattern that responds well to the right work (DBT, somatic regulation, consequence-delay protocols). It's also more common than the full pattern. The result page covers what to do with this configuration specifically.
Unequally. The secondary scale is the least reliable half of the LSRP (alpha around .63 to .69), and the field's best-fitting structure for the instrument is three factors (egocentricity, callousness, antisociality), not the two scored here. Read the Primary score as the firmer of the two and treat a Secondary tier as a lead to check, not a verdict.
Yes. The Dark Mirror profiles you across six Cluster B types using scenario-based items written from scratch, the Sociopath Test uses one validated psychometric instrument (LSRP) to score one specific construct (psychopathy) on two subscales. They serve different purposes. Many users take both, the Dark Mirror gives the wide map, the Sociopath Test gives the calibrated read on the specific axis the wide map flagged.
Your answers are stored only in your browser session by default. We do not sell or share quiz responses. If you choose to register an account or capture your result via email, the data lives on our servers under the same access controls as any registered-user data and you can request deletion at any time. The full privacy policy is linked in the footer.
If the question is causing you serious anxiety, sleep loss, or self-harm thoughts, please prioritise a licensed therapist over a self-assessment. This instrument is most useful at the contemplation stage, you suspect a pattern, you want a sharper read, you're stable enough to take in the answer. If that's not where you are right now, bookmark the page and come back when it is. Crisis resources are linked at the bottom of the page.
Your result is yours. We do not auto-publish anything. There's a share button on the result page if you want it; it copies a link to a publicly viewable page that shows only your scores and tier, no identifying information unless you explicitly add it. Most people who score high on this instrument do not share their results, which is itself information about how the population reads its own scores.

Related reading

Companion quiz

The Dark Mirror Assessment

Profiles you across six Cluster B types, Psychopathic, Sociopathic, Narcissistic, Borderline, Histrionic, Neurotypical. Most users take both. The Dark Mirror is the wide map; the Sociopath Test is the calibrated read on the specific axis the wide map flagged.

Same test, other name

The Psychopathy Test

The same twenty-six items, led by the primary scale, for anyone who arrived asking about psychopathy rather than about the word sociopath. Same engine, same norms, different question at the door.

Same test, other name

The ASPD Test

The seven DSM-5-TR criteria in plain words, what a clinician needs that a questionnaire cannot supply, and then this same screen. Written by an author diagnosed with the disorder.

Sister quiz

The Daughter Pattern Assessment

For adult daughters of (likely) narcissistic mothers. Six patterns people report, plus a mother-signal band. Different question; different answer.

Book

The Sociopathic Dating Bible

70,000-word manual. The chapters on the predator's interior were written by someone who configured similarly to the Full Pattern result, and they will read as either familiar or accusatory depending on where in the pattern you currently are.

App

Get the app

Free to start. Higher concentration of people with the Calculator and Full Pattern configurations than most rooms, by deliberate design. The room is not safer because it's gentler. It's safer because it's read.

Guide

ASPD and sociopathy: the complete guide

What the diagnosis actually is, how it differs from psychopathy, and what the research says about who has it.

Full disclaimer

Educational and reflective use only. The LSRP is a research instrument, not a diagnostic one. Only a licensed clinician with a full history can diagnose Antisocial Personality Disorder or any other personality disorder. If you are in active distress, contact a licensed therapist or, if there is risk to yourself or others, a crisis line.

How this test is scored
The instrument
The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, LSRP-26 (Levenson, Kiehl and Fitzpatrick 1995). 26 items.
How it is scored
Twenty-six statements on a four-point agreement scale, seven of them reverse-keyed, summed into Primary (sixteen items) and Secondary (ten).
What it is compared against
487 US undergraduates, 1995: Primary 29.13 (SD 6.86), Secondary 19.32 (SD 4.06); by sex, men 32.96 and 20.04, women 27.67 and 19.03.
What the research says is wrong with it
The Secondary scale is the least reliable half of the instrument (alpha around .63 to .69), and the field's best-fitting structure for the LSRP is three factors, not the two scored here (Sellbom 2011; Lagera and Sellbom 2023).
What a result is not
A result here is a trait profile, never a disorder and never a diagnosis. Only a clinician with your full history can diagnose anything, and no self-report questionnaire can.