Metaprograms of Movement
Science tells us that we can read a person’s behavior and use that information to predict what they’ll do. Who’d have thought it?
How Cell Phone Movements Can Assess Your Personality
The researchers who wrote the referenced article correlated cell phone call logs and accelerometer movement logs with Big Five personality assessments of their subjects and found some interesting things. For example, “sensitive or neurotic females often checked their phones or moved with their phones regularly well past midnight. Sensitive or neurotic males did the opposite.”
If you haven’t looked into the Big Five Personality Traits as an addition to the meta-programs you already work with, I’ll suggest looking into them. They are:
- Openness to new experiences;
- Conscientiousness;
- Extraversion;
- Agreeableness; and
- Neuroticism.
(See how the first letters spell “OCEAN” to help you remember?)
My intro to them was the book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling, Ph.D. It’s worth the read.