Personality

Personality Online

How personal Web sites tell you a lot about a person's curiosity, creativity and friendliness.
By Viviana Mazza, published on September 01, 2004 - last reviewed on November 18, 2004

What can you learn from a personal Web site? More than if you met the person for a few minutes and about as much as from a glance around their bedroom, according to a University of Texas, Austin study. Subjects who rated the personalities of 89 strangers via personal Web pages most accurately assessed the person's curiosity, creativity and friendliness. Least apparent online: emotional stability.

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