But do you know the latest personality test? You can’t do this online; instead, you have to do it in real life.
Known as the lemon test, it requires a trip to the grocery store, but it’s worth it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the lemon juice personality test.
No, this is not a test to see if you have a «sour» disposition. Rather, the lemon personality test determines your personality traits, and whether or not you are an introvert or an extrovert, all by measuring your saliva.
Science works like this.
There is a part of your brain called the Reticular Activating System, or RAS for short. It is stimulated by social contact and by the introduction of food into the mouth.
Scientists have come to believe that introverts have more activity in the RAS. This means that introverts produce more saliva than extroverts when faced with stimuli.
To take the lemon personality test, follow the instructions below:
- Drop a large amount of lemon juice on your tongue and swirl it around for ten seconds.
- Use cotton balls (the same ones used to remove makeup) to soak up all the saliva you’ve produced.
- To weigh the cotton balls.
- Now trick a friend into joining you in this exercise.
- Weigh and compare your cotton balls.
- Extraverts produce 50 percent less saliva than introverts. Those numbers are hard to ignore.
It’s funny that the way the brain communicates that you’re an individual who needs time alone to recharge and restore is by producing a ton of saliva, but there you have it.
Perhaps it was an early defense mechanism for introverts.
If we were forced to go to a party we didn’t want to go to, and were disturbed, we could spit out a lot of saliva and then run away.
That seems unlikely, but it’s fun to think about anyway.
I tried the lemon experiment myself with my partner and confirmed that I am very introverted.