Crush Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Reply naturally and notice whether clearer patterns develop over time.
- Ask a trusted person to decode what the wording probably means.
- Respond in a way that gently opens space for a more direct conversation.
- Analyze the timing and wording until I settle on the meaning I hope is true.
- They often extend it with questions, new topics, or a reason to reconnect.
- They usually let it end without trying to continue.
- They occasionally add something that keeps the exchange going.
- They engage consistently when the topic is meaningful to both of us.
- They often remember and bring up details without prompting.
- They sometimes remember when the subject naturally returns.
- They rarely refer back to personal details I have shared.
- They remember major information but not the smaller details.
Crush Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People who feel uncertain about an attraction can use the crush quiz to organize what they have noticed without turning isolated moments into a conclusion. It suits anyone seeking a crush self-assessment that brings scattered impressions into a manageable pattern, especially when messages and interactions are difficult to read. The result helps separate a recurring pattern from a hopeful interpretation without pretending that uncertainty can be resolved from one moment.
What This Assessment Explores
Rather than a yes-or-no verdict, the assessment separates your interpretation, emotional intensity, and observations of the other person’s behavior. Its focus on crush feelings helps you compare hopeful assumptions with recurring interaction patterns.
The displayed dimensions are:
- Clarity and Communication (0-15) measures reliance on impressions, pattern-checking, or respectful directness: Mostly Hypothesizing (0-5), Testing the Picture (6-10), or Grounded Clarity (11-15).
- Emotional Investment (0-15) measures how much the person affects attention, choices, and mood: Light Interest (0-5), Growing Attachment (6-10), or Strong Emotional Pull (11-15).
- Observed Reciprocity (0-15) measures noticed efforts to connect: Limited Evidence (0-5), Mixed Signals (6-10), or Consistent Engagement (11-15).
Together, these results show how your current perspective combines feeling, interpretation, and observed behavior. They do not establish compatibility or reveal private feelings.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Situation-based items cover ambiguous messages, conversation flow, invitations, cancellations, remembered details, imagined future experiences, mood changes, and contact initiation. Together, they relate emotional reactions to observable interaction patterns. These situations ask the respondent to distinguish a single event from a repeated pattern.
Each item has four response choices describing different interpretations or reactions. The selected answers produce the displayed profile, but the questionnaire does not document point values, reverse-scoring, or item weights; those rules should not be inferred.
The questionnaire measures emotional intensity, observed reciprocity, and reading romantic signals in ambiguous interactions. Its themes are conceptually consistent with O'Sullivan et al. (2022) on crushes and communication, Langeslag et al. (2013) on infatuation and attachment, and Montoya (2008) on reciprocal liking. It is neither an adaptation of those instruments nor validated by their studies.
The displayed bands function as descriptive ranges, not clinical cutoffs. Answers may reflect current mood, hope, self-awareness, and limited information, so the result describes your present viewpoint: friendly behavior can resemble attraction, and only direct communication can clarify the other person's feelings.
- O'Sullivan, L. F., Belu, C. F., & Garcia, J. R. (2022). Loving you from afar: Attraction to others (“crushes”) among adults in exclusive relationships, communication, perceived outcomes, and expectations of future intimate involvement. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(2), 413-434. 10.1177/02654075211038612
- Langeslag, S. J. E., Muris, P., & Franken, I. H. A. (2013). Measuring romantic love: Psychometric properties of the infatuation and attachment scales. The Journal of Sex Research, 50(8), 739-747. 10.1080/00224499.2012.714011
- Montoya, R. M. (2008). Toward a more complete understanding of the reciprocity of liking effect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(3), 477-498. 10.1002/ejsp.431