You can judge 90 percent of people’s personalities by their shoes, researchers say

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Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes.

"Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality. "Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages. People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear."

Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person's general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone's emotional stability.

Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.

So, what do your shoes say about your personality?

Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts.

However, some of the more specific results are intriguing. For example, "practical and functional" shoes were generally worn by more "agreeable" people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with "aggressive" personalities.

The strangest of all may be that  those who wore "uncomfortable looking" shoes tend to have "calm" personalities.

"Shoes have great variety of styles, brands, looks, and functions. Because of this variety, shoes can carry individual difference information, but do they? We suggest that the answer is yes," the study authors wrote.

And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from "attachment anxiety," spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.

There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing "shabbier and less expensive" shoes.

The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities.
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When I see a shoe head I either think spoiled kid or hard worker. Usually the face says it all.
 
Originally Posted by NORCALHUSSLA

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And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from "attachment anxiety," spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance.
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I would say inconclusive.

We also see the introverts wearing flashy/expensive shoes because they have nothing else to offer, personality wise.
 
Originally Posted by WallyHopp

I would say inconclusive.

We also see the introverts wearing flashy/expensive shoes because they have nothing else to offer, personality wise.
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I agree. More than 75% of NT are introverts.
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its true though somebodies shoes say a lot about that person although many introverts wear flashy shoes
 
I doubt it, I wear can either go with some beaters or some aquas when I want to go run errands. That in itself can go against this theory.
 
University of Kansas must be bored. Then again, I think yahoo skewed the results UK came up with especially since they keep talking about incomes. Income does not equal personality in my book.
 
Originally Posted by zapatohead408

What if they're wearing a Vick jersey too?
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if they've got olympic 7s and a Vick jersey, they probably have exceptional taste
 
I have a handful of SB's still that are all completely thrashed...

All I've worn are SB Dunks and GR Dunks for like eight years..
 
I have this really bad habit of wearing the same shoe for a week straight, or two (even three sometimes), even when I have a closet full of shoes.
It's like I get stuck on one shoe and forget that I even have any others.
 
when vans slip-ons became popular a few years ago, everybody was wearing them.

squares, skaters, gangsters, asian kids, etc.

i think this article is BS.
 
Originally Posted by USABasketball08

I have this really bad habit of wearing the same shoe for a week straight, or two (even three sometimes), even when I have a closet full of shoes.
It's like I get stuck on one shoe and forget that I even have any others.
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I do this when I get a brand new pair that I really like
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Stupid study. Stupid conclusion. These researchers have lost all credibility and should be shunned by the rest of the academic community for their stupidity.  
 
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