People can read our personalities by only seeing our email addresses

Written by IT News on 8:27 AM

How much time do you spend thinking before choosing the right alphanumeric or what type of character to represent you in the Internet? Yes, we are talking about e-mail, and yes, you guessed right to the e-mail addresses seem to label us from the moment someone who does not know us get a message from us. A study by the University of Leipzig shows that people in general with other brand attributes in relation to their neuroticism, Extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, or narcissism, by simply see their e-mail addresses.

The participants in the survey were nearly 600 men and women (although women were more), with an average age of 16.04. They offered their e-mail addresses, along with a brief description of their personality, given the six above-mentioned characteristics. More 100 students had the classification of e-mail addresses to the model in relation to e-mail client, the choice of real name or for them out of the way, or can say if the holder of an e-mail address is a man or a woman.

"Finish with the fancy name, in contrast to its own name as well as funny e-mail addresses and" Hotmail "as suppliers have been evaluated more than extrovert. Self-Improvement [...] aspects of e-mail addresses affected views of narcissism. In addition, observers testimonials on the use of gender stereotypes: objectives, proved to be female, more than neurotic, open, friendly and conscientious, the survey shows.

In Leipzig researchers say that prejudice does not always show details of someone's false person. That's because most of the comments from the control group who have addresses with the way the 599 people who participated in the survey itself. Only one of the six properties seems to be more difficult to prosecute, and it is Extraversion. Although intuition may tell us that this is the easiest to identify in a person, shows the opposite.

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