THINK twice about the email address you pick: it may speak volumes about your personality.
and colleagues at the University of Leipzig in Germany asked a panel of 100 students to .
The panels鈥� guesses agreed most with a personality survey the teenagers had completed when it came to qualities like openness, conscientiousness and narcissism, and diverged most on the trait of extroversion. Addresses that gave away personality often contained full stops, numbers or a name that was obviously not genuine (Journal of Research in Personality, ).
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鈥淭his shows that personality seeps into almost everything we do,鈥� says of the University of Texas.
