Snoop, Sam Gosling PhD
Snoop, Sam Gosling PhD
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Snoop
What Your Stuff Says about You

Author: Sam Gosling PhD

Narrator: David Drummond

Unabridged: 13 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2008


Synopsis

For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected—and unplanned—ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it to others, and interpret the world around us. Gosling, one of the field's most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities, the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations.

About Sam Gosling PhD

Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink.

About David Drummond

David Drummond has made his living as an actor for over twenty-five years, appearing on stages large and small throughout the country and in Seattle, Washington, his hometown. He has narrated over thirty audiobooks, in genres ranging from current political commentary to historical nonfiction, fantasy, military, thrillers, and humor. He received an AudioFile Earphones Award for his first audiobook, Love ’Em or Lose ’Em: Getting Good People to Stay. When not narrating, he keeps busy writing plays and stories for children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 14, 2008

The book's claim is that you can tell what people are like by looking at their stuff. This is an interesting premise, but I didn't think that the book quite lived up to it. It spent quite a bit of time exploring what it really means to know someone, and how we can categorize personality characterist......more

Goodreads review by Carol on October 05, 2008

This seemed like a really good fun read--how to "read" a person based on their stuff in their room. Heck, who doesn't do it already? But it reads like an expanded, somewhat lightened academic paper. I majored in Psych and enjoy social science research, but I expected a fun Mary Roach-esque romp thro......more

Goodreads review by Teji on April 25, 2021

This book was not what I was expecting. I was expecting some explicit “peek behind the curtain” insight into what specific objects can tell you about a person (or what other people ‘think’ an object reveals) or a tell-all about the stuff people have in their medicine cabinets… Instead, it is an acade......more

Goodreads review by Cori on August 11, 2022

Recently, our pastor described a book as "fantastic concepts, but probably could have been boiled down to a blog post." That kiiind of sums of Snoop. Many times it felt thin, sort of stretched, like butter over too much bread. Some of the concepts struck me as profound and incredibly interesting. Ot......more


Quotes

“Sam Gosling is an engaging writer, a brilliant psychologist, and a charming individual, and he must never, ever be allowed inside my office!” Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author

“Charming and well written…[a] readable and practical guide to understanding the people around you.” New Scientist

“A must-read for anyone who wants to learn about the cutting edge of psychological research.” Eric Abrahamson, coauthor of A Perfect Mess