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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.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @02:18AM (5 children)
Rule One: Make eye contact.
Rule Two: Don't avoid eye contact.
Rule Three: Don't make too much eye contact.
Don't be a spaz, dweeb. Be a bro, dude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:32AM (4 children)
Can I have an English translation please?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:52AM
You're too stupid for words.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:55AM (2 children)
If you seem awkward, an A.I. will automatically label you as autistic and/or an incel.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @04:46AM
Came here looking for this, have not been disappointed. A+ would fap again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:38AM
Don't be an autistic incel nerd. Be a pussy crushing bro dude.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by archfeld on Monday July 30 2018, @03:16AM (2 children)
A study of 42 people discovers a universal truth. With an in depth study like that how could anyone possibly dispute the truth. Dare I sat it, CLICKBAIT !!!
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:34AM
Hey now, what do you want out of the social sciences, statistical rigor? I assure you that they shoved that data frame of 42 rows through some functions in SAS that had some VERY impressive names!
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @07:08AM
But of course! They used the number that is the answer, why are you surprised?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by suburbanitemediocrity on Monday July 30 2018, @03:43AM (10 children)
At least that's what all of my ex girlfriends have told me
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:54AM (1 child)
Username checks out. You must be one of those worthless rich people I've read about.
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Monday July 30 2018, @05:20AM
Probably.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @03:56AM
You can't possibly know that from a sample size of zero!
(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.
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(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.
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 30 2018, @04:24AM (12 children)
Big whoop. So they'd know I'm fascinated by boobs. They could have just asked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by linkdude64 on Monday July 30 2018, @04:45AM
Breaking "Scientists say definitively that for scientist-types when they're looking at your chest, it's because they're thinking of your heart."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @10:46AM (7 children)
Me... sthenolagnia. But ashamed to admit it. But its the main thing that drives me nuts on women.
I will AC it to see if anyone has similar. I do not know how common it is.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:44AM
No shame in it. The shame belongs to those who look down on such things.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 30 2018, @07:10PM (5 children)
That looks like sthenos (powerful, strong) + lagnia (worship, fetishism). So like, really, really muscley women...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:30AM (4 children)
Got me... muscley women ( not necessarily big, or even strong ) work me up big time. Something about feeling the texture of muscles tensing and relaxing cause me to become very aroused.
I am far more stheno than cratno. Not too much of a boob guy, although I do fantasize that those things are pec muscles.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:30PM (3 children)
Have you checked to make sure you're not just gay? That's a serious question by the way. The traits you claim to like are far more common in men than in women.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:01AM (2 children)
I don't know. I am not aroused by sexual organs of either gender.
I do find skinny longhaired effeminate men arousing, as do I find skinny but muscularly defined women.
Just love feeling their arms, especially the biceps.
Been that way since I first discovered the alternate use for that thing.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 02 2018, @03:09PM (1 child)
Sounds somewhere slightly to the gay side of bi to me but that's just a dispassionate opinion based on your answer. I ain't even sort of interested in telling you how to live.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @05:56AM
Thanks... I thought I was just plain off-base and would not have even brought it up had it not been for the opportunity to post anonymously.
I am quite relieved the reaction to my post did not stir up a bunch of condemnation.
When I was a kid, bringing up such a thing would have got me into trouble with everyone, and it would have brought down discipline on me until I told them what they wanted to hear. So I chickened out and did not say a thing about it.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday July 30 2018, @01:21PM
You know what they say: Once you've seen one pair of boobs, you want to see all the boobs.
Torpedoes are the only pedos Republicans are willing to fire.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @05:18PM (1 child)
Reminds me of a study I heard of where they realized that the test for narcissism could be replaced with one question:
Are you a narcissist?
Seems narcissists feel no shame about telling everyone how narcissistic they are.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:33PM
What about those of us that really are just that good and don't see the point in being humble about it?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @08:29AM (2 children)
Do not trust shifty eyes?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @12:13AM (1 child)
HAHA jokes on you I have lazy eye!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:52AM
The almighty AI machine says you like muffins. Herp derp.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Monday July 30 2018, @01:48PM (1 child)
Does knowing you are observed change how and what you do? If I knew that I was being observed I'm fairly certain there are a lot of things I wouldn't do or refrain from doing and so that would probably skew the data.
Also this is clearly the new lazy trend in science "state-of-the-art machine-learning"; it's like full pot in the buzzword bingo of current science right there. A few years ago it was the gender perspective and today it's machine learning. If you can just somehow incorporate that into your "science" it seems like you are in for some serious grant money for whatever research project you could dream up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @11:04PM
Or are scientists just exploring the use of new tools and trying to push the boundaries of what we know? Of course this article should be given some wide skepticism but that doesn't make it pointless or stupid.
If you're mad about the ridiculous amount of stupid research being done then maybe it'd be better to restructure society so we can have university professors who aren't required to "publish or perish". I mean really, how many great ideas can one person have? Gotta keep those PhD students researching too!! So we end up with a lot of questionable science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)
I assume they didn't test whether it would detect introverts because they couldn't actually get any to attend the study.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @09:12PM (1 child)
Apparently intoversion is not considered a major personality trait.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday July 31 2018, @07:12AM
I get the impression they would count a lower level of extroversion as being a higher level of introversion, so it's a spectrum. I think that's how their particular pseudoscience works.
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.