Observing people reveals the most about them. Watch, not listen. People reveal themselves in subtle ways, including through habits. Choices and preferences indicate almost as much as personality type.
Find out how your behaviours tell more about you than you realise...
Do you bite nails or skin? Scientists term this “body-centered repetitive behaviors.” In a 2015 Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry study, researchers analysed people's personalities and recorded them in a stressful, soothing, or boring environment to find ticks.
Perfectionists who chewed their nails or pulled at their hair did so to relieve boredom, annoyance, and discontent. Repetition is reassuring since doing something is better than nothing. Many different stress-reduction methods exist.
According to a Journal of Research in Personality research, timeliness accurately measures desirable character qualities. Researchers had participants take a personality test at home then attend a group experiment in the lab.
They discovered that punctual people were more conscientious and pleasant, while early arrivals were connected to neuroticism. Chronically late people are more relaxed.
Want to know someone better? Visit the mall. Experiments in the Journal of Consumer Research found two types of consumers: the demon of explanation and the enemy of explanation.
Demons carefully examine every shampoo bottle in the store before choosing. An opponent will decide fast and act. Researchers suggest demons are detail-oriented and analytical. Explainer haters dislike details and prefer general knowledge.
In addition to what you eat, evidence reveals that you are how you eat. Eating behaviours can reveal personality, according to psychologist Julia Hormes and behavioural eating expert Juliet Boghossian of Los Angeles.
Fast eaters are impatient and ambitious, while slow eaters enjoy life and want control. Picky eaters are anxious and neurotic, while adventurous eaters find thrills and take risks. Finally, separating meals on your plate shows that you are meticulous.
The "proper way" to hang a toilet paper roll has been debated since its conception. Gilda Carle, a therapist, says personality preferences reveal your personality. She asked 2,000 people if they hung toilet paper upside down or below.
Her participants also completed surveys measuring their relationship assertiveness from 1 to 10. Dr. Carle's findings imply that top-down technique supporters are more dominant than non-supporters.
(Dominant guys have acknowledged to changing the paper direction in other bathrooms.) “What started as a fun exercise became an accurate assessment tool. “It adds humour to the conversation and reveals your compatibility with a potential partner,” Carle told the Independent.
According to a Journal of Research in Personality study, shoes can reveal a person's personality. Volunteers uploaded shoe images and completed a personality profile. A another group examined the images and accurately assessed the wearer's personality. They used shoes to determine age, income, and attachment anxiety.
Their findings suggest that comfy shoe wearers are happier. Aggressive people wear ankle boots. Wearing uncomfortable shoes indicates calmness, while new, well-maintained shoes indicate anxiety or clinginess.