He studied strangers' impressions of faculty members' offices as they related to personality traits including extroversion, conscientiousness and openness, and found that these qualities could be discerned.
Social psychologists from Berkeley and Amsterdam have studied strangers in situations where one told the other of a difficult personal experience, such as a death in the family.
I have some sixth-formers for longer stints this second week, and want to get them out of the classroom to study strangers (by which I mean, ordinary people).
To craft her art objects, Mayer studied strangers, examining the various positions their bodies would resort to in peek phone mode.
I was also entranced by Marina Warner's encyclopedic and pathbreaking study, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (Vintage).
When the castle's owner, Count Michael, turns up after a long wartime absence, he finds "a sleeping baby and two young strangers studying the Communist Manifesto by candlelight".
Unnerved, I turned back to my newspaper, but I couldn't shake the feeling that this stranger was studying me intensely.
In 2008, social psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley, studied pairs of strangers telling one another about difficulties they had been through, like a divorce or death of a loved one.
Reported the Wall Street Journal, "Stranger still, scientists studying the field say the crude coming out of the pipe is of a geological age quite different from the oil that gushed 10 years ago".
The observational study paired strangers getting to know one another and monitored their reactions to any smile that was exchanged -- both genuine and polite.
