Snoop : : What Your Stuff Says About you

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A provocative look at how our private spaces--from boardroom to bedroom--reveal our personalities. For ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected--and unplanned--ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us. When it comes to the most essential components of our personalities--from friendliness to flexibility--the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations. If you know what to look for, you can figure out how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his medicine cabinet, or whether an employee is committed to her job by analyzing her cubicle.--From publisher description.

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The research behind the book submitted by edwardvielmetti on June 24, 2011, 1:17pm The author's web site for the book

http://www.samgosling.com/

links to his home page at the University of Texas

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Gosling/index.htm

and this page on "

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Gosling/physical_environments.htm

Our research is based on the hypothesis that the environments individuals craft around themselves, such as offices and bedrooms, are rich with information about the occupants’ personalities, abilities, values, and lifestyles. It seems likely, for example, that the pictures a person selects to hang on her walls, the books she chooses to read, and the way she arranges the items that fill the space around her all reflect aspects of her personality and values. We further hypothesize that observers use information in personal environments to form impressions about occupants. Some of these impressions may be accurate and others may not.