SHOES and PERSONALITY

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

There are many variations to this soon-to-be published report.  I'll just post this article.

retrieved 06/15/12 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/judge-90-percent-people-person...

Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes.

"Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear."

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person's general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

So, what do your shoes say about your personality?

Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts.

However, some of the more specific results are intriguing. For example, "practical and functional" shoes were generally worn by more "agreeable" people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with "aggressive" personalities.

The strangest of all may be that  those who wore "uncomfortable looking" shoes tend to have "calm" pe....

"Shoes have great variety of styles, brands, looks, and functions. Because of this variety, shoes can carry individual difference information, but do they? We suggest that the answer is yes," the study authors wrote.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from "attachment anxiety," spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.

There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing "shabbier and less expensive" shoes.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Tara and Her Bear, Ricki, posted this link also.  A little test you can  take

http://www.blogthings.com/theshoepersonalitytest/

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

LOL! Grrrr... that's my Bear growling!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I really wish you would change your name again so I can come up with variations of the same. I'm running out of ways to say it

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

I'll work on it!

[Pat and Traveler]

Hmmmmm....I'm Bare Feet.  Tolerant, transparent--it didn't SAY forgetful, but I forget the other things.  LOL

[F, Calla & Luca]

Gee, I must be poor, liberal and agreeable : )

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

So what does this say about DH and I????  My DH's concession to dressing up or going to work is socks with the Berks!

We do have tennis shoes that we wear once in a while and I have riding boots that I wear on the bike in cold weather.  Otherwise, it is Berks all the way.....

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Took Ricki's test and now I know what my shoes say about me.   Ha ha ha:  I am a clog person: 

You are a solid and down to earth person.
You seek – and almost always achieve – a really sound balance in your life.

You are stylish yet comfortable. Mellow but driven. Excited yet calm.
You are the perfect mesh of contradictions.

No matter what happens, you have the ability to stay well grounded in your life.
People know that they can truly depend on you.

You should live: In Europe

You should work: At a company dedicated to helping the world

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

This is interesting that you, F and Joanne are all Clogs....from what I know of you 3 from DK, which is probably very little, you all seem really different from one another!!!  I can't imagine F wearing Berks! LOL!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I can imagine F., wearing Berks. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

Oh, I could see myself in Birkenstocks but I haven't had any.  I am big on Crocs nowadays. I was reminiscing with a cousin about an Aunt's Earth Shoes and how ugly they were. She assured me that Crocs are uglier.

I have a feeling the results really have to do with age, or pain or standing on your feet a lot : ) I might wear Jimmy Chews but not Choos and the day you see me in a Laboutin will be the day I've had a lobectemy. I won't be feeling pain or having a coherent thought. These beauties are $1395 at Bergdoff Goodman's. Too bad I have to feed the dogs or I'd run right over : )

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

That shoe must have been designed by a person that hates women! WTD!??