Richard Wiseman is one of the most known psychologists at this time. He is a professor of psychology in university of Hertfordshire in United Kingdom. Professor is known because of his experiments in deception, humor, luck and many more quirky areas. So I would like to talk about one of them.
There was one interesting personality test in his website. It is not ordinary test, that we are used to, but involves some movements which “speak” more fairly then a words.
In the first part of this test you have to trace a capital letter Q on your forehead with your finger. This simple movement allows you to see if you are more “self” or “other” centered.
If you have draw the tail of the letters Q on your right side – that could be read by yourself. This way of drawing, according to Wiseman, means tha
t you are more self centered, guided by your own values than the needs of others. On the other side, you are straight with people and expect others to be honest with you.
If you have draw the tail on your left side – that could be seen by someone facing you. This way of drawing shows that you are other-centered person. You worry about how other people see and accept you. This kind of people can easily adapt their behavior to a situation and are very good at lying.
This is only one part of this personality test; another part can be done in his website http://www.qiurkology.com/.
In my opinion, this kind of tests is quite logical, because we make all these movements unconsciously. Just it could be broader and include other types of personality. All in all, Richard Wiseman made a huge influence to psychology of nowadays. He has simplified the attitude to the psychology by making it funny and quirky.
References: http://www.richardwiseman.com/;
http://www.quirkology.com/USA/Experiment_AnalyseYourself.shtml.
There was one interesting personality test in his website. It is not ordinary test, that we are used to, but involves some movements which “speak” more fairly then a words.
In the first part of this test you have to trace a capital letter Q on your forehead with your finger. This simple movement allows you to see if you are more “self” or “other” centered.
If you have draw the tail of the letters Q on your right side – that could be read by yourself. This way of drawing, according to Wiseman, means tha
t you are more self centered, guided by your own values than the needs of others. On the other side, you are straight with people and expect others to be honest with you.If you have draw the tail on your left side – that could be seen by someone facing you. This way of drawing shows that you are other-centered person. You worry about how other people see and accept you. This kind of people can easily adapt their behavior to a situation and are very good at lying.
This is only one part of this personality test; another part can be done in his website http://www.qiurkology.com/.
In my opinion, this kind of tests is quite logical, because we make all these movements unconsciously. Just it could be broader and include other types of personality. All in all, Richard Wiseman made a huge influence to psychology of nowadays. He has simplified the attitude to the psychology by making it funny and quirky.
References: http://www.richardwiseman.com/;
http://www.quirkology.com/USA/Experiment_AnalyseYourself.shtml.
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