Sam Gosling - Snoop: The Secret Language of Stuff

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01 hr 06 min 50 sec

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01.

From Snooping to Psychology

02 min 07 sec

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02.

'Snoopology' Research

03 min 30 sec

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03.

The Openness Trait / The Leonardo Factor

02 min 38 sec

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04.

Differences of Men and Women

02 min 03 sec

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05.

Mistakes You Can Make

04 min 35 sec

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06.

Faking Your Space

04 min 21 sec

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07.

Questions to Ask

04 min 34 sec

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08.

Getting Into The Psyche / Identity Claims

04 min 46 sec

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09.

Using Snooping in a Job Interview

01 min 40 sec

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10.

The Greater Good to Snooping

06 min 04 sec

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Predicting Political Orientation

01 min 42 sec

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12.

Surprises

02 min 01 sec

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13.

Exploring Virtual Worlds

03 min 07 sec

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14.

Q & A

00 min 29 sec

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15.

Q1: Stop Fighting Being Messy

01 min 36 sec

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Q2: Virtual / Real Differences

03 min 12 sec

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Q3: Two Kinds of Messy People

01 min 48 sec

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Q4: Disparities

02 min 30 sec

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Q5: Appearances

01 min 27 sec

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Q6: Behavior on Facebook

01 min 01 sec

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21.

Q7: Women in Kitchens

01 min 21 sec

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22.

Q8: Importance of Spaces

01 min 36 sec

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23.

Q9: Hoarding

02 min 15 sec

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24.

Q10: Narcissism

01 min 37 sec

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Q11: Psychological Disorders

01 min 19 sec

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26.

Q12: When Do Patterns Start?

03 min 14 sec

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• Sam Gosling Examines Creativity and Openness

  03 min 08 sec

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  Social psychologist Sam Gosling analyzes the openness trait, which he calls the "Leonardo Factor", by examining peoples' personal spaces.
  
  Openness, to Gosling, can be found not in the amount of creative items but in their variety.

• Sam Gosling Questions a 'Fake' Personal Space

  04 min 50 sec

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  Social Psychologist Sam Gosling explains the difficulty of "faking" one's projection to the world.
  
  Gosling believes that most people want others to see them as they perceive themselves and that it is natural for personal space to reflect one's self-perception.

• Sam Gosling Analyzes Facebook Profiles

  03 min 25 sec

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  Social psychologist Sam Gosling discusses the psychological significance of virtual profiles, asking whether or not they are used for "projections of an ideal self" or simply a medium of communication.
  
  Gosling believes that although sites like Facebook appear trivial they, in fact, are meeting important psychological needs.

• Sam Gosling Predicts Political Orientation

  02 min 11 sec

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  Social psychologist Sam Gosling describes how personal space may be indicative of political orientation.
  
  He claims conservatives tend to be more organized and have a narrower variety of things while liberals are messier, more extroverted, and possess a wider variety of things.

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