I never would have thought that a paper clip could reveal so much about my personality
I have used paper clips more for making little tools than I have for actually clipping paper together. Opening sim card trays, cdrom trays, and reseting electronics is why I keep them on my desk. They have also been used to pick locks on filing cabinets that I have lost keys for. ;)
More often than anything else though when I find a loose paper clip I tend to fidget with them. For one poor teacher I remember making a long chain out of all the paper clips in a jar on her desk then put them back for her to find later. Most of the time I find myself just bending them out of habit.
Bending paper clips is a perfectly normal thing to do right?
Well apparently I am not alone. A psychiatrist in Zurich, Mario Gmür developed a personality test and authored a book "The Paperclip Test: A Personality Quiz Like No Other" from studying how his patients bent the paper clips on his desk into shapes. His paitents would leave them on the desk and he started saving them.
I just got his book today and it has 60 different paper clips on the personality test. It suggest not reading about the paper clip personalities until after doing the test.
Opps! I had already read about some of them.
A New York Post article describes some of the personalities and that is how I found out about the book. So I will have to wait a little bit before I take the test.
I plan on sharing my findings from the personality test with another post. I am not sure how long I am going to wait before taking it. I think the wait will help me be less biased.
Mario Gmür's paper clips have some interesting names. "The Pyromaniac", "The Hulk", and "The Nosy Parker" are just a few.
When I was first looking at the descriptions I found a few that I thought I might have made before. "The Procrastinator", "The Natural Host", and "The Seducer" looked really familiar.
I didn't particularly like knowing about "The Seducer" one.
"Fiddling with paperclips is a basic human impulse."
by Mario Gmür
Feel free to show off your paper clips in the comments and let us see your personality.
Feel free to show off your paper clips in the comments and let us see your personality.
Sources:
“THE PAPERCLIP TEST: A Personality Quiz Like No Other” by Mario Gmur.
https://nypost.com/2016/10/26/what-these-twisted-paperclips-reveal-about-your-personality/
http://read.hmhco.com/thepapercliptest/
No, I wouldn't take them from work.
Photos are by me, @smawkward. The paper clips are mine as well.
That's interesting! For me, I just like to straighten it. I hope there's a personality type for it.
I'm guessing that "The Hulk" is the grumpy type?
I am going to start saving mine to see what I do the majority of the time. I bent the ones above just to have photos.
I could see it being grumpy. Apparently "The Hulk" doesn't like change.
Ha! Being someone who has never fiddled with paper clips, I am very curious to see what they are going to reveal about your personality 😁
I find it hard to believe that you haven't bent paper clips. You should try it.
I am horrible about fiddling with stuff like this.
Haha, I don't know about that :D Does fiddling with stuff make you feel more relaxed?
I don't know if actually helps me relax or not. I think its more of just a habit I picked up.