--- title: "SCARS Institute: Are You a Believer or a Truth Seeker Self-Assessment Test – v2" canonical: https://scampsychology.org/are-you-a-believer-or-a-truth-seeker-self-assessment-test/ type: post author: "SCARS Research Team" published: 2026-08-25 modified: 2026-09-26 categories: ["• RECOVERY PSYCHOLOGY", "• VICTIM SUPPORT", "♦ PSYCHOLOGY", "♦ SELF-TESTS", "2026", "ASSESSMENTS", "RECOVEROLOGY", "UPDATED 2026"] summary: "[raw] The Two Roads A Self-Assessment of How You Meet an Open Question · 50 statements Your Privacy Is Protected We never see your identity Your responses are processed in your browser and your email. Only you see any identifying…" organization: "Official SCARS Institute Journal of Scam Psychology & Recoverology" organization_url: https://scampsychology.org/ llms: https://scampsychology.org/llms.txt --- # SCARS Institute: Are You a Believer or a Truth Seeker Self-Assessment Test – v2 # The Two Roads A Self-Assessment of How You Meet an Open Question · 50 statements ## Your Privacy Is Protected #### We never see your identity Your responses are processed in your browser and your email. Only you see any identifying information about you. #### De-identified data supports research With your permission and your identity removed, your de-identified answers are sent to the SCARS Institute for scientific research only. Data is never shared with third parties. #### Keep your own copy When you finish, you can save, email, or print your results on your own device — to keep, or to share with your therapist or mental health professional. The SCARS Institute provides this tool to help you reflect on the direction of your recovery after a scam, and to decide whether extra support would help. You can save it to share the results with your therapist or mental health professional. I give my consent for my fully de-identified assessment data to be used for research purposes only. I understand that all personal identifiers have been removed from my responses, this information will not be shared with any third parties, and my participation is completely voluntary. ## Before You Begin Every person meets an open question with one of two underlying pulls. One pull is toward settling: reaching an answer that feels right and can be held onto. The other is toward finding out: staying with the question long enough to test it, and accepting whatever comes back. Both pulls are ordinary and both are human. This assessment identifies which one is currently running the show, and it ends on one of two roads. There is no score, no percentage, and no ranking. Answer quickly and candidly about how things actually go, not about how they ought to go. Your first reaction is usually the accurate one. There are no right answers, and no trick questions. Some statements will seem to have nothing to do with anything. Answer them anyway. Use a 1 to 5 scale for each statement: - **1** Strongly Disagree - **2** Mostly Disagree - **3** Mixed or Depends - **4** Mostly Agree - **5** Strongly Agree **Please note.** This is an educational tool for reflection and discussion, not a clinical or diagnostic test. It describes a current position, not a fixed trait, and it is not a measure of intelligence or worth. Roughly fifteen minutes. **Do not refresh or reload this page.** Your answers are held only in this browser session, and reloading will erase your progress. Select an answer to continue Your Result ### What the pattern showed ### What the road means ### What this assessment just did None of these statements mentioned money, relationships, or deception, and that was deliberate. Naming those subjects would have told you which answers looked good and produced a portrait of who you want to be rather than where you currently stand. The statements instead measured ten separate things the research literature has studied for decades: how long you can hold a question open, whether new information can move a settled position, how you treat a claim you would prefer to be true, whether you check where information came from, and how much weight a first impression carries. Half the statements were written so that agreeing indicated seeking, and half so that agreeing indicated settling. Answering everything the same way, in either direction, produces an exactly balanced result and does not reach the Yellow Brick Road. There was no safe answer to guess. ### Four practices that move a person toward the Yellow Brick Road - Ask what evidence would show a claim to be false, before deciding whether you accept it. - Trace where a claim originally came from, using a source the other party did not hand you. - Apply the same standard to information you welcome and information you do not. - Let a question stay open past the point where it becomes uncomfortable. **Learn and get support.** The SCARS Institute publishes research on how belief, certainty, and recovery interact at [ScamPsychology.org](https://scampsychology.org). Free support is available at [support.againstscams.org](https://support.againstscams.org), and professional counselors at [counseling.againstscams.org](https://counseling.againstscams.org). Facilitator notes **Save your result before leaving this page.** Reloading or closing will erase it. The Two Roads Self-Assessment | Educational use only. Not a clinical diagnosis. | www.ScamPsychology.org V2