Aug 25, 2023
Author Sam Gosling visits Google to discuss his book "Snoop: What
Your Stuff Says About You".
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, such
as 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 to others, and interpret the world around us.
Gosling, one of the field's most innovative 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.
Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the
University of Texas at Austin. He has spent the last decade
conducting research on how personality is expressed and perceived
in everyday contexts.
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watch the video.