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Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS) Test

Understand how strongly someone identifies with friends, their country, and all people in about 5 minutes. A 27 item scale that supports research and practice in empathy, tolerance, and global citizenship.

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

15/45

Russians (R)

Measures how strongly a person identifies with citizens of their own country (national group).

Low identification

Moderate identification

High identification

9 – 21: Low identification | 22 – 33: Moderate identification | 34 – 45: High identification

A score of 15 falls in the Low identification range, suggesting national identity is a relatively less central part of the person’s sense of belonging.

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30/45

Close Social Circle (CSC)

Measures how strongly a person identifies with their immediate social circle such as family, friends, and colleagues.

Low identification

Moderate identification

High identification

9 – 21: Low identification | 22 – 33: Moderate identification | 34 – 45: High identification

A score of 30 indicates a moderate level of identification with the immediate environment, suggesting a steady sense of belonging to close people without being strongly pronounced.

example score

13/45

Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAHS)

Measures how strongly a person feels a sense of belonging and connection to humanity as a whole.

Low identification

Moderate identification

High identification

9 – 17: Low identification | 18 – 33: Moderate identification | 34 – 45: High identification

A score of 13 falls in the Low identification range, suggesting a comparatively weaker sense of connection with humanity as a whole and a stronger emphasis on narrower social groups.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Students and global-minded youth

41%OF USERS

They take it to understand how strongly they feel connected to friends, their country, and people worldwide as they shape their identity and values.

Psychology and sociology researchers

34%OF USERS

They use it to measure and compare social identification levels across groups for studies on tolerance, altruism, and global citizenship.

Diversity and community practitioners

25%OF USERS

They use it to assess belonging and global empathy in participants to tailor programs that reduce polarization and support cooperation.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Russians (R)

Average

29.9

Normal range

23.2 — 36.6

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Immediate Environment (IE)

Average

22.2

Normal range

16 — 28.4

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Scale of Identification with Humanity (SoIwH)

Average

27.4

Normal range

21.3 — 33.5

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Not close at all
- Not very close
- Somewhat close
- Fairly close
- Very close
- Not close at all
- Not very close
- Close to some extent
- Fairly close
- Very close
- Not close at all
- Not very close
- Somewhat close
- Quite close
- Very close

These are 3 of the 27 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

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Identification with Humanity Scale, IWAS Test

Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS) Test - Symptoms and Signs

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This measure assesses the extent to which an individual experiences identification and sense of belonging at different social levels. The Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS) is used to characterize identification with close others, people in one’s country, and people worldwide.

The instrument consists of 27 items and typically takes about 5 minutes to complete. Responses can support research and clinical or programmatic evaluation in areas such as social connectedness, intergroup attitudes, altruistic orientation, and broader global identification, with attention to how identification patterns vary across the three referent groups assessed by the Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAS).

Author: S. H. Schwartz

Literature: Susan T. Fiske. Social beings: Core motives in social psychology. Wiley. 2018.; McFarland, S., Webb, M., & Brown, D. All humanity is my ingroup: A measure and studies of identification with all humanity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2012.