Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room décor carry clues to your character? Award-winning psychologist Sam Gosling has dispatched teams of scientific investigators to poke around bedrooms and offices, check out iPods, and peek at personal websites-to see what can be learned about us simply from looking at our belongings. What he has discovered is intriguing: When it comes to the most essential components of our personality-from friendliness and flexibility to openness and originality-the things we own and the way we arrange them can say more about who we are than even our most intimate conversations. Packed with original research and a wealth of fa 9780465012435