The book is quite long as the author goes into various anecdotes about experiment he has done with college students. Snooping can be quite good at determining gender and the attractiveness of people (by the photographs of their partners).

This book counsels against making big deductive jumps, but that rather limits the scope of snooping. The big problem with this book is that it is kind of obvious that conscientious organised people are likely to have organised personal spaces and open people are likely to have interesting reading material.

And things such as music tastes or drinking tastes are less important than we imagine. For example, a messy person can tidy up or certain items can belong to other people or company policy might change the way a person’s desk is set up, etc. In general people tend to underestimate context(except with regard to themselves), and the book argues it is hard to deduce much from a few cues. In many ways the book seems to argue that snooping might not be so useful. If a person is open they are likely to have a wide range of books and if a person is very tidy then they are likely to be conscientious. However mostly it is on merely two of these traits. The book goes on to argue that you can read clues from people’s living space. Openness(how willing you are to experience new things)Īgreeableness(how much you like other people) The book starts by detailing the big five traits of psychology It claims we can deduce much about a person from their living or working space. What he has discovered is intriguing: When it comes to the most essential components of our personality–from friendliness and flexibility to openness and originality–the things we own and the way we arrange them can say more about who we are than even our most intimate conversations.Packed with original research and a wealth of fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guide to our not-so-secret selves, and reveals how intensely connected we are to the places in which we live and work.An interesting idea for a book. You can read this before Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You PDF full Download at the bottom.ĭo the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room decor carry clues to your character? Award-winning psychologist Sam Gosling has dispatched teams of scientific investigators to poke around bedrooms and offices, check out iPods, and peek at personal websites–to see what can be learned about us simply from looking at our belongings. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You written by Sam Gosling which was published in January 1, 2001.

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