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Big Five Movie Star Test

You are here because one of your friends linked you to his or her Big Five Movie Star Test result.

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Your friend is the most like:

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley
"A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women."

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Compared to the general population, your friend is:

  • Above average on Openness
  • Below average on Conscientiousness
  • High on Extroversion
  • Above average on Agreeableness
  • Below average on Neuroticism

According to scientific data compiled by the Ph.D.s Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Porter, your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • Eccentric, sensitive, and individualistic.
  • Open, tolerant, and flexible.
  • Creative, imaginative, and curious.
  • Complex, nuanced, and open-minded.
  • Someone with a strong desire for novelty and diversity.
  • Likely to use fewer pauses in their speech than the average person.
  • Spontaneous, impulsive, and quick to improvise.
  • Adaptive, flexible, good at thinking on their feet.
  • Likely to use more hand movements and gesticulations in a conversation than the average person.
  • Expressive.
  • Active, assertive, energetic.

According to Geoffrey Miller, professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, these slogans are likely to describe your friend's personality and outlook on life:

  • "Talk nerdy to me."
  • "A PBS mind in a Fox News world."
  • "Don't say ironic when you mean coincidental."
  • "If it fits on a bumper sticker, it's not philosophy."
  • "Live every day to its full."
  • "A clean house is the sign of a wasted life."
  • "Better to be a failure at something you love than a success at something you hate."
  • "Drive it like you stole it."
  • "A stripper is a great last-minute gift idea."
  • "Adrenaline is my drug of choice."
  • "My cult following is now accepting applications."

According to a study done by the Ph.D.s Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, and Jeff Potter, your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • More likely than the average person to have furnished their home in a way that other people regard as 'stylish' or 'distinctive'.
  • Less likely than the average person to have organized the books and records in their home into some orderly system.
  • Likely to appreciate more genres of music than the average person.
  • More likely than the average person to own books about travel (e.g. 'Lonely Planet', 'Rough Guide', and the like).
  • More likely to have art supplies (e.g. canvas and paint) in their home than the average person.
  • More likely than the average person to keep old plane and movie tickets as memorabilia.

According to peer-reviewed studies from Texas AM University (US), Pepperdine University (US), Cambridge University (UK), and Sejong University (Korea), your friend's scores indicate that he or she is:

  • More likely than the average person to want their political representatives to negotiate with the representatives of other parties in order to arrive at a workable compromise.
  • More likely than the average person to have a critical view of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.
  • Likely to be more knowledgeable than the average person about political issues.
  • More likely than the average person to care about the ambience of a hotel where they are staying, and not just its quality and service.
  • More likely than the average person to buy something unexpected and fun that they stumbled across while shopping.
  • More spontaneous, improvising, and supple than the average person.
  • Less in favor of using military action to solve foreign policy disputes than the average person.
  • More likely than the average person to cheat on their homework and exams.
  • More likely than the average person to treat themselves to a little extra luxurious something when shopping.
  • More energetic and quicker to act than the average person.
  • Someone who reads more newspapers and who follows the news more closely than the average person.
  • More likely than the average person to enlist their friends and acquaintances to get behind the political issues they support.

According to a scientific study done by the Ph.D.s Gokul Chittaranjan, Jan Blom, and Daniel Gatica-Perez, your friend's scores indicate that if he or she own a smartphone he or she is:

  • Likely to use longer words, and more long words, in their text messages than the average person.
  • Likely to spend less time texting than the average person.
  • Likely to receive more calls on their phone than the average person.
  • More likely to use internet apps on their smartphone than the average person.
  • More likely to use entertainment apps (like games, audio, and video) on their smartphone than the average person.

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