Does your messy office make your mind look cluttered? Office appearance and perceivers' judgments about the owner's personality

Horgan, Terrence G.; Herzog, Noelle K.; Dyszlewski, Sarah M.

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“…Meanwhile, some civil engineering laboratories do not have much space. If the operator cannot well clean the laboratory, the environment of the civil engineering laboratories will become very messy, which will affect the quality of the operator’s experiments and easily cause accidents [ 84 , 85 ]. Similarly, management is also an invisible driving force for a clean laboratory environment.…”

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Assessing the Safety Risks of Civil Engineering Laboratories Based on Lab Criticity Index: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province

Zhang

Peng

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With the rapid development of the construction industry, an increasing amount of attention were paid by universities to the development of civil engineering experiment courses so as to improve the practical research abilities of students. In recent years, due to the frequent occurrence of civil engineering laboratory accidents, it has become an urgent issue regarding on what factors influencing safety risks and how to assess and reduce the safety risks in civil engineering laboratories. Based on the lab criticity index (LCI) model, the research specificities of civil engineering laboratories were analyzed through literature review and expert interviews and 13 risk factors of civil engineering laboratories, from the four aspects of man, object, management, and environment, identified. The data for each parameter in the LCI model was obtained through a questionnaire survey, and finally the LCI value was calculated to evaluate priority. Among them, insufficient safety awareness of operators, danger due to equipment failure, imperfect management policies, and complex floor conditions were listed as the most common risk factors. Based on the LCI model, the worsening factors of these four risk factors were further analyzed. The LCI model is applied to the new research field of safety risk assessment in civil engineering laboratories that few researchers have studied before and a risk list for civil engineering laboratories was created. We revealed the safety status of civil engineering laboratories in Jiangsu Province and provided feasible suggestions for improving the management and supervision of civil engineering laboratories at universities. It can strengthen operator awareness of the risks in civil engineering laboratories and improve the social group’s attention to the safety risks of the laboratories, thus reducing the accidents’ possibility and seriousness of civil engineering laboratories.

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Assessing the Safety Risks of Civil Engineering Laboratories Based on Lab Criticity Index: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province

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“…This might be the reason why the lack of results in this study is contrary to some previously published work. Also, former studies have focused on single personality traits of personality constructs such as the Big Five (Gosling et al, 2002; Harris and Sachau, 2005; Hu et al, 2018; Horgan et al, 2019) whereas we measured personality styles as a holistic set of single traits trying to illustrate a complete person in an environment. It seems to be easier to illustrate single, isolated traits like Consciousness or Agreeableness compared to a whole set of traits forming a specific personality style.…”

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“…It has been investigated if the cleanliness of an apartment (provided in fictional stories) would affect observer impressions of the resident: Specific traits like lower Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and greater Neuroticism were attributed to an owner of a messy working desk rather than a clean, organized desk (Harris and Sachau, 2005). In another study (Horgan et al, 2019), participants were assigned to sit in a researcher’s office to judge the researchers Big Five traits afterward. Participants associated a messy desk with less Agreeableness and more Neuroticism compared to a nit and organized desk.…”

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“…To summarize, people shape their environment reflecting how they define themselves, linking working space to personality traits as well (Gosling et al, 2002; Harris and Sachau, 2005; Horgan et al, 2019). While these studies focused on Big Five trait characteristics, we will try to extend this approach to personality styles seen as a whole set of traits.…”

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Working Desks as a Classification Tool for Personality Style: A Pilot Study for Validation

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We shape our surroundings; form the rooms we live in, so that we feel comfortable in them. This shows parts of our personality – it can be inferred from our environment. In this study, we created stereotypical desks embodying different personality styles and let 190 students choose which desk fits – in their subjective perspective – the most to their personality. To determine their personality style, the personality style and disorder inventory (PSSI) was used. Correspondence analysis (CA) was conducted to investigate the relationship between personality styles and choice of desks. Results did not show convergence of personality styles and desks. Contrary to the popular scientific idea, personality and creation of surroundings were not related; regarding our study, the relation is uninterpretable suggesting an individual’s desk choice is not statistically dependent on one’s individual’s highest PSSI subscale. The study can be regarded as a pilot project for desk designs as classification tool for personality.

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“…Esta metodología también se ha empleado en los lugares de trabajo u oficinas (Horgan, Herzog y Dyszlewski, 2019;Tian y Belk, 2005) o en la actividad en redes sociales (Gosling, Augustine, Simine, Holtzman y Gaddis, 2011). Otros aspectos estudiados han sido el comportamiento en la vida cotidiana (Mehl, Gosling y Pennebaker, 2006;Schweiker, Hawighorst y Wagner, 2016), la vestimenta (Gillath, Bahns, G. y Crandall, 2012;Vazire, Naumann, Rentfrow y Gosling, 2008;Tong y Su, 2014), o el propio uso del lenguaje (Dönges, 2010).…”

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Los seres humanos utilizamos símbolos para relacionarnos, los cuales reflejan nuestra identidad y nuestra pertenencia a grupos. Hay una gran variedad de objetos personales que sus dueños ven como partes de su yo. Dichos objetos forman parte del extended self y el smartphone, con un uso ya totalmente generalizado y diario, puede considerarse uno de ellos. En este estudio se utilizó el método del autoinforme para obtener información sobre los mecanismos de expresión de la personalidad (las características físicas de sus teléfonos móviles, así como su personalización y su uso, siempre que fuesen observables) y observar su asociación con los diferentes rasgos del modelo Big Five. La muestra se compone de 199 estudiantes universitarios de los cuales el 66.8% fueron mujeres. Los resultados muestran que existen diferencias observables entre mujeres y hombres (color del smartphone, uso de la funda, etc.); y sugieren que existen ciertos indicadores de personalidad referentes al smartphone (tipo de funda, gusto por los selfies, pantalla dañada, entre otros). Por último, se hacen patentes las diferencias, en cuanto a frecuencia de aparición, entre los diferentes mecanismos de expresión de la personalidad (expresión de identidad, reguladores emocionales y huellas conductuales).

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Does your messy office make your mind look cluttered? Office appearance and perceivers' judgments about the owner's personality

Cited by 6 publications

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Assessing the Safety Risks of Civil Engineering Laboratories Based on Lab Criticity Index: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province

Assessing the Safety Risks of Civil Engineering Laboratories Based on Lab Criticity Index: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province

Working Desks as a Classification Tool for Personality Style: A Pilot Study for Validation

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