Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Gosling, Sam

ISBN 10: 0465027814 / ISBN 13: 9780465027811

Published by Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2008

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Signed by author. Light shelf wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
• Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465027814
• ISBN 13: 9780465027811
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology
  • New Arrivals

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Synopsis

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 analyzing her cubicle. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.

About the Author

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. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. This is his first book. He lives in Austin, Texas.