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chuckroHow much can you actually learn about someone’s personality by snooping around their apartment or Google-stalking them? Quite a lot, apparently.
This is mostly a pop psychology book—the snooping thing is the framework he uses, but a lot of time is devoted to explaining the personality measures that he and other researchers use, and then relating them back to what you can find in somebody’s office.
A bunch of these things I knew already—the general uselessness of in-person interviews for jobs, for example. The idea of “anchoring” in negotiations or testing, for another.
There’s a personality measure called “neuroticism” that it appears every member of my family is high on. Shocking, I know.
Overall: I’m not entirely sure why, but I was underwhelmed—the topic is interesting and I generally like psychology stuff, and the framing details (what snoop-able details correlate to what personality details) are a perfectly valid frame. I can’t say why is didn’t really grab me, but it didn’t.
This is mostly a pop psychology book—the snooping thing is the framework he uses, but a lot of time is devoted to explaining the personality measures that he and other researchers use, and then relating them back to what you can find in somebody’s office.
A bunch of these things I knew already—the general uselessness of in-person interviews for jobs, for example. The idea of “anchoring” in negotiations or testing, for another.
There’s a personality measure called “neuroticism” that it appears every member of my family is high on. Shocking, I know.
Overall: I’m not entirely sure why, but I was underwhelmed—the topic is interesting and I generally like psychology stuff, and the framing details (what snoop-able details correlate to what personality details) are a perfectly valid frame. I can’t say why is didn’t really grab me, but it didn’t.
