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Digital records could expose intimate details and personality traits of millions

11 Mar 2013

Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital...

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A screengrab of Barack Obama's typical Facebook fan from LikeAudience.

With friends like these…

22 Apr 2011

Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to...

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iPod

Cambridge Ideas - The Music In Me

31 Mar 2011

Dr Jason Rentfrow, from the University's Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, explores the links between personality and musical taste...

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Crowd

Substance over style? That’s entertainment

14 Mar 2011

Whether they affect the films we watch, the books we read or the music we listen to, our choices about entertainment often appear to have as much to...

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personality test

Personality test to explore rules of attraction

30 Jul 2010

A major new investigation which aims to solve two of the biggest unanswered questions in psychology is being launched by researchers at the...

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Headphones

You Are What You Listen To

21 Aug 2009

It may not be possible to judge a book by its cover, but judging someone by the contents of their iTunes library could be a very different story, new...

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Wrigley Field, Chicago

Scientists discover area of brain that makes a 'people person'

20 May 2009

Cambridge University researchers have discovered that whether someone is a "people-person" may depend on the structure of their brain: the greater...

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personality

The new geography of personality

01 Jan 2009

Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.

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A.M. Walzer Co. United States Inlay Puzzle

Neighbourly in Nebraska, nervous in New York

11 Sep 2008

The personalities of people in the USA often differ according to the state in which they live, a new study led by Cambridge University has revealed...

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Ear

Can a voice identify a criminal?

01 Sep 2007

Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...

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Scientists’ Alzheimer’s research wins medal

03 Apr 2006

A PhD student at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), Richard Page, has been hailed as one of the UK’s top young scientists after...

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