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Snoop : What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Snoop : What Your Stuff Says About You about?

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, 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 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. 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 analy

Who reads Snoop : What Your Stuff Says About You?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Sam Gosling
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780465027811
Category
science
Subjects
Business, Psychology, Sociology
Rating
3.33 / 5 (3,710 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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