false 1581330 7 For readers of <I>Blink</I> and <I>Freakonomics</I>, a provocative look at how our private spaces--from boardroom to bathroom--reveal our personalities, whether we know it or not <P> Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bathrooms, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected--and unplanned--ways, but how we create personality in the first place, communicate it to others, and interpret the world around us. <P> Gosling, one of the field's most ingenious researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: 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. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. <P> Packed with original research and fascinating stories, <I>The Secret Language of Stuff</I> is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret-lives. 1574165 book 26 5 2008 Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You total:500|5:35|4:127|3:212|2:103|1:23| 500 1548 1228 178 4 11 false false Fri Mar 13 05:21:29 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 05:40:27 -0700 2009
Well, I did enjoy this book, but I’ve a horrible feeling that might not come across.

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Can the methods here tell you a great deal about others no matter the...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 10:41:45 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 15:41:23 -0700 2009 I felt like the author never got to the nitty-gri...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 19:30:41 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 21:10:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 10:47:38 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 09:52:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 11:59:49 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 10:43:21 -0700 2008
But it reads like an expanded, somewhat lightened academic paper. I majored in Psych and enjoy social science research, but I expected a fun M...more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Jul 25 09:40:38 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 22:16:11 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 09:40:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false true Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 21 21:57:43 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 22:00:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 16:34:30 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 21:51:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 15:46:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:25:43 -0700 2009
I thoroughly enjoyed the implementation and use of a new...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:31:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:31:01 -0700 2008
Snoop is an interesting study of how people's stuff reflects their personalities and the events that occur in their lives. Unforutnately, there was a lot of person...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 10:11:08 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:58:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 20:57:54 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 15:07:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 07:47:22 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 07:48:51 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 23:20:14 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 14:04:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 17:16:35 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 17:25:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 08:43:50 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 13:31:48 -0800 2009
First of all, it is an interesting and engaging read. Definitely fun stuff. Gosling is an intelligent, clever writer. I blew through this book in three sittings. It does have some...more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jun 09 11:32:17 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 09:19:32 -0800 2008
The interesting things were few and far apart. So was the fun.]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 29 13:07:09 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 13:10:13 -0700 2009 more...]]>