PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Personality Psychology, Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck
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Gosling, ko, mannarelli, and morris (2002) asked this very question in a systematic way. They reasoned that when people live in an environment they leave behavioral residue behind. Such physical traces left behind by everyday actions are hints or cues to the personality of the occupant (gosling et al. , 2002). For example, specific items may be left behind either carelessly, like a snowboard that wasn"t put away properly, or on purpose to convey a certain image (e. g. , hey, i"m cool, i"m edgy, i"m a snowboarder! ). Items have personal meaning to them or reinforce their own self-views (e. g. , i"m a nature lover ). Ways we express personalities and leave, perhaps inadvertently, cues for observers. In this study, anywhere from 1 to 6 observers, ordinary folk with no particular training, visited actual rooms of. Experiment: the researchers covered names and any photos in the rooms so that observers would not know for sure the race or gender of the occupant.
