Inferences of Personality Traits from Bedroom Objects: An Approach from the SCM

AbstractThis research aims to investigate whether individuals use categories of objects to classify cues inside a bedroom and to find relations between those clusters and occupants’ personality traits. Three studies were conducted. A list of the most significant belongings inside residents’ bedrooms was obtained from the pilot study. The second study (N = 81) indicated the existence of two categories of objects: Functional and Symbolic. The third study (N = 277) showed that the dimensions of Competence and Warmth, proposed by the Stereotype Content Model, were associated to the functional and symbolic categories of the objects respectively