Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You, (Paperback)

from akmargie

Is social and identity psychology ever not fun? Gosling does a great job setting a theortical and research driven basis for his studies while giving the reader a real world application. It's a delicate balancing act between presenting academic research without going into too much eye crossing det...

from kristenn

I don't actually approve of the surface premise of the book -- going through medicine cabinets and such (which he does endorse). I'm very big on personal space and privacy. But I was very interested in what people assume about you from your stuff as well as what signals people try to send with th...

from wvlibrarydude

A short look at the research Gosling and his associates have done to investigate the stuff and detritus of our lives to find out what our personalities are. Concise look at the implications of what our stuff can say about us, and the limitations on the various methods of analysis. A decent but no...

from wvlibrarydude

A short look at the research Gosling and his associates have done to investigate the stuff and detritus of our lives to find out what our personalities are. Concise look at the implications of what our stuff can say about us, and the limitations on the various methods of analysis. A decent but no...

from ElectricRay

I suppose you can't blame Sam Gosling for trying to catch a wave, even if it took him a while to catch it: his variety of psychology - drawing deep psychological conclusions from superficial evidence in the shape of personal detritus in bedrooms and offices and the outward shape of public interne...