The Science Behind the Magic? The Relation of the Harry Potter “Sorting Hat Quiz” to Personality and Human Values

Author:

Jakob Lea1,Garcia-Garzon Eduardo2,Jarke Hannes3,Dablander Fabian4

Affiliation:

1. Assessment Systems International, Prague, CZ

2. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, ES

3. RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK

4. Department of Psychological Methods, University of Amsterdam, NL

Abstract

The Harry Potter series describes the adventures of a boy and his peers in a fictional world at the “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”. In the series, pupils get appointed to one of four groups (Houses) at the beginning of their education based on their personality traits. The author of the books has constructed an online questionnaire that allows fans to find out their House affiliation. Crysel, Cook, Schember, and Webster (2015) argued that being sorted into a particular Hogwarts House through the Sorting Hat Quiz is related to empirically established personality traits. We replicated their study while improving on sample size, methods, and analysis. Although our results are similar, effect sizes are small overall, which attenuates the claims by Crysel et al. The effect vanishes when restricting the analysis to participants who desired, but were not sorted into a particular House. On a theoretical level, we extend previous research by also analysing the relation of the Hogwarts Houses to Schwartz’s Basic Human Values but find only moderate or no relations.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

General Psychology

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