Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
by Sam Gosling
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Author: Sam GoslingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-12
ISBN: 0465013821
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
What does that bowl of please-help-yourself-anytime(!) candy on your co-worker's desk reveal about her? What do the type and placement of the pictures and knickknacks you've placed in your office say about you? What kind of personality clues can you get from looking at someone's book collection and how it is (or is not) arranged? What can your date's iPod list tell you about his interests and values? What do your e-mail address and signature communicate about your personality? How can you figure out if someone is really as organized and open-minded as they initially appear?
If any of these questions fascinate the heck out of you, then you'll probably want to get your hands on a copy of Sam Gosling's _Snoop_. In this hard-to-put-down and even-harder-to-forget book, Gosling shows how "we can capture something about a person's character and personality, values and habits, hopes and dreams, just from looking closely at their rooms or offices." He categorizes our stuff into three basic levels of personality revealers:
(1) Identity claims--the stuff like posters, bumper stickers, and photos we use to make specific statements about who we are <or at least who we want to be>;
(2) Feeling regulators--ambiance-enhancing/mood-inspiring items like family photographs and scented candles we have to help regulate our emotions and thoughts;
(3) Behavioral residue--the physical traces (look no further than refrigerator shelves, trash containers, and bedroom floors) that provide evidence of our everyday actions, which ultimately reveal volumes about our personality, goals, and values.
Sam brilliantly explores how we can use the above type of clues and cues to better asses, anticipate, and accommodate the "OCEAN's Five" key components of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. To help systematize the super snooping process, he shares his "Snooping Field Guides" which use specific clues (such as how a person dresses/walks/talks/shakes hands/fills their bookcase/decorates their bedroom and office spaces/tends to their eyebrow grooming) to remarkably reveal information about their personality.
If you're a psychology junkie, or just a normal (?) human curious about the charming abnormalities of other humans, _Snoop_ will be as inviting and tasty as that big bowl of candy on your co-worker's desk. And, where you place the book when you are finished reading it will reveal volumes about your personalty.
Summary of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room décor 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. 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.
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