Study Reveals Our Misguided Tattoo Assumptions: Personality Judgments Are Often Way Off!
East Lansing, Michigan — New research from Michigan State University reveals that people are remarkably inaccurate at evaluating personality traits based on tattoos. The findings suggest that individuals often make snap judgments about others’ personalities from their body art, but those assumptions are frequently incorrect. The study involved 274 tattooed adults who took an in-depth personality test and provided photographs of their tattoos along with detailed explanations of their meanings. A group of 30 raters, including psychology students and faculty, assessed these images. Some raters received the accompanying descriptions, while others did not, yet both … Read more