Core term · Charles E. Osgood

Evaluation-Potency-Activity

Three broad dimensions used to organize meanings: good-bad, strong-weak and active-passive.

Areas of life
Brandingself-imagesocial perception

Why it matters

Provides a simple structure for measuring subjective meaning.

How to handle it

Describe important concepts across value, power and energy dimensions.

Who shaped this idea

The thinker behind it

From concept to practice

Turn Evaluation-Potency-Activity into a question you can answer.

Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.