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It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we feel. Now, new research reveals that your eyes may also be an indicator of your personality type, simply by the way they move.
Developed by the University of South Australia in partnership with the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, the research uses state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms to demonstrate a link between personality and eye movements.
Findings show that people's eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognising four of the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
Researchers tracked the eye movements of 42 participants as they undertook everyday tasks around a university campus, and subsequently assessed their personality traits using well-established questionnaires.
UniSA's Dr Tobias Loetscher says the study provides new links between previously under-investigated eye movements and personality traits and delivers important insights for emerging fields of social signal processing and social robotics.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @07:59AM (6 children)
If it makes any difference to you, I have been told the same, by one gal I thought I had feelings for. This did me in about like trying to get a bumper sticker off a bumper; I did not come off in any shape fit for re-use. Trouble is I never did learn to trust again, or to commit. From then on I saw relationships with women like having a relationship with Disneyland. Maybe I should be happy enough just to get on the rides.
This was over 10 years ago. I met her in the supermarket a couple of months ago. Hardly recognized her. Boy, did she ever change. Apparently she met the man of her dreams, but he had no feelings for her. But now she's supporting him. He has spent the fortune her father had left her. On "good times". Sold the apartment complex her dad left her, spent that, and she is still married, but now quite unhappy, but trapped. From my viewpoint, he is sure a lot more exciting than I could have ever been. I would have never done that kind of crap he pulled off, going into debt for Vegas, etc. But it was daddy's money, and fun while it lasted, I suppose. She got the real prize.. a bad boy who always seems to be on the wrong side of law enforcement officers. Exciting!
To me, such a waste.
I would much rather go through life living within my means, than have a brief two year flare of my resources, followed by a lifetime of people chasing me for debt payment. That is the kind of excitement I can well live without.
Rich men's daughters seem very likely to be so bitchy that no common guy can live up to her standards, and she will quickly drain even quite wealthy people who commit to keeping her happy.
Count your blessings.
That little revelation sure made me recount mine. I came out way on top on that one. From no skill of my own, mind you.
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Monday July 30 2018, @03:12PM (1 child)
(it was a joke)
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:06AM
To me, it wasn't no joke. Tore me up to see this go down. Wasn't a thing I could do about it.
Not only did she mean a lot to me, I sure wanted to build on what her dad started and I was going to devote the rest of my life to it, so we could pass it to our kids in turn.
Her dad had the business skills to maintain it, and I have the technical skills to turn that into a wonderful retreat for people to come home to. I was hoping her dad's business skills would rub off on her, but, I suppose trying to build and maintain a really beautiful oasis for us as well as others to live was simply not exciting. Her family had worked for generations to acquire this, and the whole thing was gone in less than ten years, and she looked like one of those Hollywood "has been" stories, now on Government assistance. With most of the fruits of her family's labor left in Vegas.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:32AM (3 children)
I will never, ever understand why blowing all your money in the moment and screwing over your own future is more exciting or hip than a future of potentially being rich! I can see how the danger and fear of losing everything could be exhilarating to some people but that sounds pretty self destructive to me. I get that it has something to do with living in the moment, but if you have a decent amount of wealth and know that sometime soon it will all be gone, you mustn't just value the now more than the future, you must value it hundreds of thousands of times more!
In some ways I suppose the present is more valuable than the future. After all if you spend your whole life looking forward, you never really appreciate the raw experience itself. But hundreds of thousands of times more valuable? Even when you factor in that, depending on your age, the future may consist of many, many more present moments and you're comparing those against just the current one? Yeah these people are either really, really fucking stupid or they have a desperate urge to destroy themselves.
Sorry to hear what happened to you, and to her. I hope your own future brings you something better.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:27PM (2 children)
Money ain't all it's cracked up to be. It don't buy happiness, just surcease of misery and worries. Once you achieve that level, it's just a game to see how much more you can make. Not a particularly fun game to me though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday July 31 2018, @08:14PM (1 child)
Beyond a certain level, yeah. It's a bit like what I was saying about always looking to the future and never fully enjoying the present, if you're always chasing more money and never enjoying what you could do with it. Below that level though, it sure is useful for paying for stuff you need.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @09:21PM
Yup. It's necessary to a point but only diminishingly desirable from there on up. My earning capability is way, way above where my "Meh, I'm going fishing." point is, for example. I can live with no serious complaints at somewhere around $30-40K/yr but I prefer a bit more than that for shiny new toys purposes and savings. Beyond that, I'd rather spend time enjoying what I already have than acquire more shit that I'm not going to have time to properly enjoy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.