MetaFilter posts tagged with personality

he of the weird al hair and santa claus beard

kliuless — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:14:25 -0800

R.Sapolsky on the uniqueness of humans in relation to the rest of the animal world (via)

You motherf$%&*#rs are all on notice

psmealey — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:36:02 -0800

Facebook Profiles Capture True Personality Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin. Findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Researchers include: Gosling and Sam Gaddis (The University of Texas at Austin), Mitja Back, Juliane Stopfer and Boris Egloff (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany), Simine Vazire (Washington University in St. Louis), and Stefan Schmukle (Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany).

"Our system allows you to clone your best, most reliable people"

orthogonality — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:39:53 -0800

Strongly Disagree: It bothers you a long time when someone is unfair to you. Other people's feelings are their own business. When people make mistakes, you correct them. You are a fairly private person. You don't believe a lot of what people say.
Strongly Agree: Any trouble you have is your own fault. It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free. When someone treats you badly, you ignore it. You agree with people more often than you argue. You are careful not to offend people. You can wait patiently for a long time. You finish your work no matter what. You know when someone is in a bad mood, even if they don't show it. Your friends and family approve of the things you do. Your moods are steady from day to day.
....the expected answers... are always "Strongly Agree" or "Strongly Disagree." You actually have four options to choose from, when asked whether a statement applies to you or not... [but] "Disagree" or "Agree" are NEVER the right answer to any question, even though any sensible person will have mixed feelings about all these questions.

Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny.

diagnose your blog.

lunit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:48:57 -0800

What type is that blog? Apply the classic psychological assessment Myers-Briggs Test and its sixteen personality types to your blog. Metafilter is ISTP. AskMe is ISTJ and so is MetaTalk. Music is ESFP.

I Contain Multitudes

homunculus — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:00:10 -0800

First Person Plural. "An evolving approach to the science of pleasure suggests that each of us contains multiple selves—all with different desires, and all fighting for control. If this is right, the pursuit of happiness becomes even trickier. Can one self bind another self if the two want different things? Are you always better off when a Good Self wins? And should outsiders, such as employers and policy makers, get into the fray?" [Via]

Neurotics in the north. Agreeable types in the south.

CheeseDigestsAll — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:42:01 -0800

Is personality a factor in where you live? Yes, according to the guys who created these maps. The authors aren't making any claims about causality, but they do suggest it may be that "people migrate to places where their psychological needs are easily met." Missing from this overview, of course, is any hard definition of what marks someone as "neurotic" or "open-to-experience" and if any of those attributes can be reproducibly diagnosed. It could be, of course, that it's the doctors in a region that tend toward a common set of labels.

The Cut-and-Paste Personality

subgear — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:42:27 -0800

These identity thieves don't want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and your cool taste in music. Among the 125 million people in the U.S. who visit online dating and social-networking sites are a growing number of dullards who steal personal profiles, life philosophies, even signature poems. Dude u like copied my whole myspace, posts one aggrieved victim.

peers over parents

AceRock — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:16:55 -0800

So he didn't read the baby books! BFD says Judith Rich Harris, author of the "No Two Alike", and originator of a controversial theory about personality development. Namely, that when it comes to our kids' adult personalities, what we did as parents doesn't really matter much at all.

Famous ESTPs include P. T. Barnum and DR. PETER OKOYE, SON OF THE LATE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA M. B. OKOYE

psmealey — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:43:03 -0800

Myers-Briggs personality types made relevant As you probably already know, the Myers-Briggs Personality Sorter is intended to be a general, universal personality ID that divides people into one of sixteen distinct personality types, along axes if introverted (I) or extroverted (E), Sensing (S) or Intuitive (N), Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). Related: the Real Astrology.

Flash Personality Profiler

cgc373 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:52:51 -0800

Imagini Visual DNA. A ten-webpage survey supposed to profile your personality. [via Robot Wisdom]

Photos never lie?

Dave Faris — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:01:21 -0800

Movie stars. What have they got that you haven't got? A professional retoucher. (via YesbutNobutYes) (Click on Portfolio. Flash interface, click on the thumbnail and hover over the pop-up to see the unretouched photo. Clicking on the pop-up will make it go away.)

Go away, I'm thinking.

footnote — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:54:48 -0800

Are smart people grumpier?

A model for mapping personality awareness

airguitar — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:17:39 -0800

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up. To start, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe you. Your results will be saved, under a name of your choosing, so that you can send your friends and colleagues directly to your Window.

Neurotic? Extroverted?

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:16:37 -0800

Personality

“Research in individual differences addresses three broad questions: 1) developing an adequate descriptive taxonomy of how people differ; 2) applying differences in one situation to predict differences in other situations; and 3) testing theoretical explanations of the structure and dynamics of individual differences.”

Visit the Personality Project. While you're there, participate in the Internet Personality Inventory Survey.

Legitimate Job Test or Something Wacky?

etaoin — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:26:58 -0800

Legitimate Job Test or Something Wacky? H.J. Cummins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune writes about personality tests--never meant to screen job applicants--being used or misused by employers. Test sample items: "I see things or animals or people around me that others do not see." "My soul sometimes leaves my body." "I have a habit of counting things that are not important, such as bulbs on electric signs, and so forth."

Bach!

Gyan — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 08:12:29 -0800

The J.S. Bach Home Page.

The Day My Mother’s Head Exploded

iffley — Tue, 25 May 2004 15:25:53 -0800

"The Day My Mother’s Head Exploded". Hannah Palin's mother suffered an aneurysm, eventually woke, and built herself a new personality. A downloadable audio piece from Transom (thanks headless)

You are your record collection.

eyebeam — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:37:37 -0800

You are your record collection. If you really want to get to know someone, try rummaging through their CD collection. "I don't think anyone who's really passionate about music just 'listens' to it. This research is positive confirmation of the fact that songs are emblematic of people's characters. I've always believed that people's musical taste says a lot about them. If you like Avril Lavigne, for example, you probably need to have your ears syringed."

Your OS personality type

PeteyStock — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 10:14:32 -0800

Which OS are you? I am Slackware Linux. This would make sense, if not for the fact that I use Win2K.

Hi, my name is Vlad, and I have a problem.

dgt — Thu, 08 May 2003 22:14:20 -0800

Meet Vlad. And Chuck. And Amiz. And Nec. This is an interview that I found to be absolutely fascinating. After countless (really... countless...) hours spent in places like Bianca's Smut Shack, Vlad got really, really into chatting. I was really pretty amazed reading through this interview at how far people go on these things. Invented online personalities become real life ones. I can't help but wonder whether this is an extreme exception, or something of a norm. The next step in wondering, of course, is to wonder how many Mefites are going down this road. Hmm... could it be... you? Find out. High scores, anyone? (Probably NSFW, but then, look at how much Vlad got away with!)

Everybody's Heroes

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 07 May 2003 13:54:15 -0800

Heroes Are Only A Letter Away From Herpes: You catch them and you keep them and they more or less follow you through life. But heroes are good for us. Anyway, I came across this neat little exercise by Phespirit and perhaps because I share more than a few of his heroes - like Mark E. Smith [ get his font here!] and Peter Cook [A little taste here!] - it got me thinking: to what extent do our heroes, as they change or remain steadfast over the years, help define our personality? Are they who we'd like to be or be like or just be with?

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Us

MiguelCardoso — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 20:44:08 -0800

How Important Is Religious Belief In The Definition Of Our Personality? I would say not at all, but Bernard Lewis's essay gave me pause. Bringing it all back home and wondering about MetaFilter's religious breakdown, does the fact that there are far more atheists, Jews (like me) and Mormons here than in the Western population at large, make any difference? Christians get a hard time here, in my opinion. Is it because, as Lewis says: "Tolerance was a much more difficult question for Christians"? Atheists, Jews and Buddhists seem to have a disproportionately large influence. Whereas Muslims, sadly, hardly get a look-in. What does this mean? That is, if it means anything?

Hell is other people at breakfast

stefanie — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:39:15 -0800

Caring for Your Introvert An amusingly succinct essay about the "habits and needs of a little-understood group"

The cocky bastard has left the building...

insomnia_lj — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:55:59 -0800

The cocky bastard has left the building... to be replaced with the life student. So, how are your online personaes lately?!

oh posey — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:49:36 -0800

Look at your hands. Is your index finger shorter or longer than your ring finger? Be careful because according to John T. Manning, those two fingers reveal a variety of characteristics about yourself to the world including assertiveness, attractiveness, reproductive success, hand preference, verbal fluency, autism, depression, health and disease, homosexuality tendancies, musical and sports aptitudes. [via Tigerbunny]
And while you are at it don't forget what the middle finger and a long second toe might reveal.