Everything You Need to Know to Judge a Person Can Be Determined by Their Shoes
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 10:00 (7428/12)
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According to psychologists, people are able to tell a random stranger's age, gender, income, political affiliation, emotional stability "and other important personality traits just by looking at the person's shoes." Yes, even emotional stability, which I thought was crazy and yet:
Participants were able to most accurately judge a person's age, gender and income followed by their emotional stability and agreeableness.
In psychology, emotional stability is an umbrella term that includes a person's fear of abandonment, rejection issues and the ability to handle different kinds of relationships.
People with "attachment anxiety" or people that were most worried about their relationships generally had brand new and well-kept shoes. Researchers suggest that this may be because they worry so much about their appearance and what others may think of them.
Not surprisingly, liberal thinkers, who many think of as flip-flop wearing hippies, wear shabbier and less expensive shoes.
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