{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "dark_personality_style_test": {
      "name": "Dark Personality Style Test",
      "desc": "12 scenarios exploring your shadow-style patterns through the Dark Tetrad framework (Paulhus & Williams 2002). Discover which Dark Tetrad pattern your behaviour leans toward, Strategist, Spotlight, Cool Hand, or Provocateur. Personality-style exploration, NOT a clinical assessment.",
      "recommendation": "Choose the option that's closest to your honest default, not the version that sounds good. Everyone has some level of each shadow pattern; the quiz reflects which one you lean toward, not whether you have it.",
      "testNames": "Dark Personality Style Test",
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "When you want something from someone, your most natural approach is...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Play the long game, set up the situation so they offer it themselves",
              "desc": "Patience + positioning"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Make them want to give it because you're worth giving it to",
              "desc": "Make yourself the prize"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Ask directly, sentiment doesn't really enter the calculation",
              "desc": "Cold straight ask"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Apply a little friction so they're motivated to resolve it",
              "desc": "Push, then offer relief"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "How do you feel about winning at someone else's expense?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Fine, if it serves the longer plan, the cost gets recouped later",
              "desc": "Strategic trade-off"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Necessary, winning is what tells me my measure is right",
              "desc": "Winning IS the validation"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Neutral, their loss isn't my emotional event",
              "desc": "Outcome-only"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Sometimes the best part is watching the loser realise it",
              "desc": "Friction is the bonus"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Someone in your circle gets called out publicly for something they did. You...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Watch how the room reacts; you'll know what to do once the wind shifts",
              "desc": "Wait, then position"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Make sure your reaction is the one people remember as 'the right one'",
              "desc": "Position the spotlight"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Don't really react internally, it isn't happening to you",
              "desc": "Detached"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Quietly enjoy that the friction is finally out in the open",
              "desc": "Welcome the heat"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Your style under pressure is closest to...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Calculate three moves ahead while everyone else is still reacting to the first one",
              "desc": "Strategic stillness"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Project confidence loudly so the pressure shifts off you and onto others",
              "desc": "Confidence as deflection"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Stay cold and clear; pressure is mostly noise",
              "desc": "Unmoved"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Get sharper, more cutting, pressure makes you a better edge",
              "desc": "Pressure = blade"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When someone tries to flatter you, your internal response is...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Note what they want; flattery is information",
              "desc": "Tactical reading"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Accept it, they're seeing something accurate",
              "desc": "It tracks"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Indifferent, flattery is a social ritual, not a real signal",
              "desc": "Doesn't register"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Mildly contemptuous, flattery is what weak people deploy",
              "desc": "Read it as weakness"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "How would your closest people describe your relationship to rules?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Selective, you follow rules that serve you, ignore the rest carefully",
              "desc": "Strategic compliance"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Rules apply less to me because the outcomes I produce are exceptional",
              "desc": "Exception by performance"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Rules are externally imposed and emotionally neutral; I follow when it's efficient",
              "desc": "Outcome-only compliance"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "I enjoy breaking the petty ones, small transgressions feel correct",
              "desc": "Friction with the system"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When you read about a public figure being praised, your most honest reaction is often...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "I want to know HOW, what moves got them there",
              "desc": "Study the playbook"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "I should be the one being praised at that level, I'm working on it",
              "desc": "Comparative ambition"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Mostly indifferent, other people's success is their event, not mine",
              "desc": "Neutral"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Skeptical, most praised people have hidden things they don't want known",
              "desc": "Cynical lens"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Empathy, for you, feels...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Useful as data, knowing how someone feels helps me move accurately",
              "desc": "Empathy as map"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Real for people close to me; theatrical for people I want to like me",
              "desc": "Strategic warmth"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Mostly absent, I notice it intellectually but don't feel it the way others describe",
              "desc": "Cognitive only"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Present for the underdog; absent for the comfortable",
              "desc": "Selective"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When you imagine the future you want, the strongest pull is toward...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Quiet power, influence over the things that matter, with low visibility",
              "desc": "Invisible leverage"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Recognition, being seen and remembered as exceptional",
              "desc": "Public stature"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Freedom, not having to answer to anyone for anything",
              "desc": "Unowed"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Justice on my terms, the people who wronged people understanding that",
              "desc": "Reckoning"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Your view of trust is closest to...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Trust is a tool, it earns dividends when carefully placed, and it can be revoked",
              "desc": "Trust as instrument"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "I expect to be trusted because I'm worth trusting; reciprocal less interesting",
              "desc": "One-way trust"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Trust is overrated, useful for stable transactions, but not a virtue",
              "desc": "Functional only"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Trust is mostly self-deception, the smart move is to assume betrayal",
              "desc": "Default-distrust"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "When a close relationship ends badly, your dominant reaction is...",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "Analyse what I miscalculated and what I'll do differently next time",
              "desc": "Post-mortem"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "Realise quickly that the other person was the one who couldn't keep up",
              "desc": "Their loss"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "Move on cleanly, the loss isn't emotionally costly the way people describe it",
              "desc": "Clean break"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "Stay slightly engaged, let the other person feel the consequences for a while",
              "desc": "Slow goodbye"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Which sentence sits closest to your private self-image?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "♟️",
              "label": "I see further and play longer than most people, and I'm right more often than they are",
              "desc": "Long game"
            },
            {
              "icon": "✨",
              "label": "I'm a bigger deal than my circumstances currently reflect; that gap is temporary",
              "desc": "Underrated"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧊",
              "label": "I'm rationally calibrated where others are emotionally compromised, that's an advantage",
              "desc": "Cold-clear"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🌶️",
              "label": "The world is unjustly soft; someone willing to apply pressure is what it actually needs",
              "desc": "Bring the friction"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "dimensions": {
        "strategist": {
          "name": "The Strategist",
          "desc": "Your style leans toward Machiavellian patterns, long-game thinking, strategic patience, and a willingness to treat trust, charm, and warmth as instruments rather than as virtues. This isn't 'evil' or 'broken', it's a real personality style that shows up in many high-performing roles where situational awareness and patience are required. The Dark Tetrad framework (Paulhus & Williams 2002) treats Machiavellianism as a continuum present in everyone; high scores describe a leaning, not a diagnosis.",
          "high": "Patience + situational awareness + comfort treating trust as a tool. Lower-cost strategic thinking than most people manage."
        },
        "spotlight": {
          "name": "The Spotlight",
          "desc": "Your style leans toward narcissistic patterns, a strong sense of being underrated, comfort positioning yourself as the central figure in social moments, and a quiet expectation that recognition is a matter of when, not if. This isn't a clinical pathology, it's a real personality style with established academic research behind it. Done well it produces drive and visibility; done poorly it produces blindspots about how you land.",
          "high": "Confidence + comfort taking centre stage + a sense of personal exceptionalism that drives forward motion."
        },
        "cool_hand": {
          "name": "The Cool Hand",
          "desc": "Your style leans toward psychopathic patterns (in the academic-research sense, not the clinical-diagnosis sense), emotional detachment, low reactivity to social pressure, and a transactional view of relationships. The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy framework (1995) treats this as a continuum present in everyone; what's described here is a leaning, not a disorder. Done well, Cool Hand styles can be exceptional in crisis and high-stakes negotiation.",
          "high": "Emotional steadiness + low reactivity + clear-eyed assessment of situations others find emotionally distorting."
        },
        "provocateur": {
          "name": "The Provocateur",
          "desc": "Your style leans toward sadistic patterns (in the Dark Tetrad academic sense), comfort with applied friction, enjoyment of breaking social niceties, and a sense that pressure is a legitimate tool for getting honest reactions out of people. This isn't 'enjoying cruelty', it's a real style that shows up in litigators, comedians, and certain kinds of organisational reformers. The trap is when friction becomes the entire offering.",
          "high": "Willingness to apply pressure + comfort with social friction + low patience for performative niceness."
        }
      },
      "retakePrompt": {
        "lastResult": "Last time, your style leaned toward {{archetype}}.",
        "evolvedHint": "Dark Tetrad patterns can shift with context, work, romance, family pressure each surface different leanings. If a different archetype surfaces on a retake, that itself is information.",
        "retakeButton": "Take the quiz again"
      }
    }
  }
}