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Welcome to the SEB Skills Lab
​home of the BESSI


You have skills, and you can use them to thrive


This is a website about social, emotional, and behavioral skills (SEB skills). You use SEB skills to start and support  your relationships, keep your emotions in check, achieve your goals, and learn from experience. They’re things like goal setting, leadership, teamwork, creativity, and emotion regulation. And just like academic or athletic skills, we believe that SEB skills can be learned, practiced, and improved over time.

We also believe that SEB skills can be measured. To help do this, we’ve created an assessment tool called the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI). The BESSI measures many specific skills across five broad categories: Self-Management, Social Engagement, Cooperation, Emotional Resilience, and Innovation Skills. It’s reliable, valid, comprehensive, quick, and free to use for non-commercial purposes.

About SEB Skills

Visit this page to learn about what social, emotional, and behavioral skills are, and why they matter in people's lives.​
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Our Research

Visit this page to learn about our completed, current, and future research projects designed to learn more about skills and improve the BESSI.
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the BESSI

Visit this page to learn about the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI), and see how you can use it to measure skills.​
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Our Team

​Visit this page to learn more about our collaborative team of scientists.
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Take Our Test

Follow the links below to take online versions of the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI). The full BESSI provides feedback scores on 32 specific skills organized within five broad skill domains: Self-Management, Social Engagement, Cooperation, Emotional Resilience, and Innovation Skills. The abbreviated BESSI-45 only provides feedback scores on the five broad domains.
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TAKE THE BESSI-45
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  • Home
  • About SEB Skills
  • The BESSI
  • Our Research
  • Our Team