**An anonymous viewing of your room may reveal your personality more than an interview with your friends do.** A study was done where people were asked to identify their friends' levels of introversion/extroversion, agreeableness, contentiousness, emotional security, and openness to new experiences. Then, complete strangers were given an opportunity to guess those same traits about these people after spending a short time investigating the space in which they live. It turns out that strangers walking around your room are better at determining a majority of [[The 5 Big Personality Traits]]. Better by friends (via "Thick Slicing"): - Introversion vs extroversion - Agreeableness Better by strangers in your room: (via [[Thin Slicing]]) - Conscientiousness - Emotional security (neuroticism) - Openness to new experiences **** # More ## Source - [[Blink]] ## Related - [[Thin Slicing]] - [[The 5 Big Personality Traits]]