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Psychological
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Psychological Profile report can help deduce your behavior
profile. It can include various behaviors, preferences, personal
traits and special talents.
Profiles can be
deduced
from data mining any public information such as behavior records, consumer activities, shopping habits, memberships in various organizations & clubs, court
records, demographic data, internet search, property deeds, media, databases, blogs, social networking services,
wikis, newsgroups, opinions, comments, words, voice, pictures,
videos, biological features, physical features, body language, forums, message
boards including other methods such as statistical comparisons
with peer groups. There is no necessity to take written or
verbal tests and no necessity of lengthy questions and answers
as in the Myers-Briggs tests. Psychological profiles deduced
from background information have the potential to surpass
conventional psychological testing methods as they consider more factors than what people say.
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Excerpts and comments on Research in this field:
Standardizing traits is an emerging field. Just as credit
scores are used by creditors to determine how good a credit
risk you are. Psych scores confer predictive value for
estimating how likely it is that someone behaves in a
certain way. People having similar scores for certain
aspects of their behavior tend to act similarly for those
particular behaviors. You can compare psychological profiles
of two people and find out how similarly they would tend to
be like each other for particular behaviors. According to Michael Welner a forensic psychiatrist and New
York University professor, specific, standardized definition
of behavior can even help prevent juries from relying on
their emotions or personal experience. In State of Oregon v.
Lawson, for example, the defense tried to introduce expert
testimony stating that their client, Mr. Lawson, did not
match the profile of a sex offender, and by extension of
that logic could not therefore be one. The court in that
case found that "Whether it is labeled a 'syndrome' or a
'profile', the type of evidence…involves comparing an
individual's behavior with the behavior of others in similar
circumstances who have been studied in the past."
Information such as the types of music, magazines, books,
movies clothes a person likes, membership preferences,
convey a lot about that persons behavior. Research,
published in the June issue of the Journal of Psychological
and Social Psychology, indicates that your musical tastes
may indeed reflect more about your psychology than
previously realized. This research shows that music
preferences can offer some important insights into a
person's psychology, and might even serve as a tool when
trying to learn more about someone," says study author Sam
Gosling, a professor at the University of Texas. Many
studies show that preferences in music, movies, TV shows,
travel, books, plays, even favorite colors, politicians,
movies or pop stars — says a little something about who a
person is, and can help discover a person's tastes and likes
and dislikes. A study by Alan Hirsch M.D., director of Smell
& Taste Treatment and Research Foundation states that even
favorite pizza toppings of a person show a correlation to
their behavior. Various preferences of a person convey a lot
about the individuals psychology. These preferences can
provide insights on traits like, if the person drinks,
smokes, has hemorrhoids or practices safe sex. Most major
retailers and web portals collect detailed data from users.
This includes geographic area, ISP information, and what was
queried. Nearly all major retailers also track and archive
preferences of their customers. Many retailers use
services of The Return Exchange, to track customers' return
habits. The Return Exchange maintains a database of
shoppers' return habits by combining data from a number of
retailers into one database.
Research published by David Dunning of Cornell
University, Chip Heath of Stanford University and Jerry M.
Suls of the University of Iowa reveal that other people who
are not involved in any type of relationship with an
individual are better judges of an individual's
relationships and abilities. These researchers have been
studying a large body of research into self-evaluation, and
much of it reveals that most of us have flawed views about
us and our relationships. That can have consequences, because if we don't know about our
relationships and who we are, we could be endangering others
as well as ourselves. People deceive themselves because they
lack the necessary information to make an accurate
assessment; and they often ignore or undervalue the
information they do have.
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Psychology also has a great
influence on the Stock Market. Investors are people
and like most people react emotionally to news and other facts. And a person's perception of fundamental and technical
factors can be influenced by many things including money.
Markets are all about perceptions of the future. If investors
expect things to get better, stocks go up and if investors think
things will get worse, stocks go down. And these expectations are constantly
being adjusted, as investors digest every possible detail --
such as economic news, earnings reports, economic data, political
events and news and any other factor that might give them a clue about what the future
holds. More important than the details themselves is how
investors perceive those details and react to them. Facts do matter, but the
only thing that really counts is how investors react to the
facts. This perception of the details and facts depends a great
deal on the individual psychological profile of investors and
the total market is the collective psychological profile of all
the investors. Yale professor Robert Schilling who correctly
predicted the Stock Market crash in his book "Irrational
Exuberance" and who may have lent Alan Greenspan the word
Irrational Exuberance quoted to the Financial Times "One of the
great innovations of our time is, bringing psychology back into
economics." Princeton University Psychology Professor
Daniel Kahneman, won a Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his
work merging psychology and economics. He is a pioneer in the
field of behavioral finance. Research in behavioral finance
shows that people are generally emotional, biased, irrational,
overly impressed with their acumen and what they believe to be
familiar to them. And this behavior practiced in masse tends to
create bubbles and seasonal swings. |
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Donald trump's
how-to-get-rich strategies also include comments on the
importance of Psychology in making deals. He discusses how
knowing the psychology of people involved in his deals has
contributed to his success as a dealmaker. According to him, his interest in
psychology came late, after dismissing it in college. Now Trump
says Jung the renowned Psychologist's work is "important to
financial success." Jung has been a big "help in my business as
well as in my personal life. He recommends that Reading Jung will give you
insights into yourself and the ways in which you and other
people operate." And when he says that he's talking to all of
us. |
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A study by American Management Association (AMA) reveals
that 39 percent of companies surveyed use psychological
testing as part of their hiring process. More and more people
are also using psychological profiling to evaluate their
business partners, dates and spouses. Salespeople use
psychological profiling to better understand the needs of
their customers and gain a competitive edge in closing sales.
Even college students have started using psychological
profiling to evaluate their roommates. Lawyers use profiling
for Criminal behavior profiling, Litigation profiling, Witness
examination and Jury selection |
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Dr Michael Moynagh and
Richard Worsley have completed studies whose patrons include the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the foreword is written by British
Prime Minister Tony Blair. The study concludes that
Psychological profiling will be the way to screen one's ideal
partner - and with all this matchmaking, the divorce rate could
fall, the study says. |
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As a measure to improve school safety, one
of Pittsburgh's largest suburban school districts is thinking of
making use of student profiling. North Allegheny
Assistant Superintendent Richard Domencic has proposed the
district look into what some consider a radical tactic in the
battle to stem school violence: student profiling to identify
students who are believed to be prone to violence. "You will
never know if you overreact," Domencic told the board when he
presented his proposal last month, "but you will always know if
you underreact. |
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