Personal Space

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This paper explains the article "A Room with a Cue: Personality Judgments Based on Offices and Bedrooms." This is an article that discusses how an individual's personality can be depicted by the environment they create which surrounds them. The paper includes a review of related research, which shows that personal spaces such as bedrooms and offices are an incredibly rich source of information about people's personalities.

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"Gosling conducted two studies where people were asked to rate other peoples personalities. They were asked to use the standard "Big Five" traits of openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and emotional stability. This was to be completed after looking through either their offices or their bedrooms. After that task, the ratings were then compared to see how accurate their assessments seemed when compared to self- and peer-ratings of the office and bedroom inhabitants."

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