The tattoo was previously considered a sign of belonging to the underworld or deviant behavior. Today they are widely accepted worldwide as a form of personal expression. Statistics show that more than a quarter of the young have a tattoo. Someone covers a considerable flat body, others choose only a small flower. According to American psychologists, people, according to tattoo style, estimate the nature of its wearer.
Scientists from Michigan State University now revealed, As people judge others on the basis of their tattoos. According to their analysis are People with cheerful, colorful tattoos perceived as pleasant. On the contrary, those who have the skull and death motifs tattooed are rated as less pleasant.
“People often believe that tattoos reveal deep truths about a person’s personality, but this idea usually doesn’t stand,” said the lead author of the study professor William J. Chopik. Tattoos have existed for thousands of years. The first documented cases come from 5,000 years ago, the mummy found in the Alps known as Ötzi had a tattoo in the skin.
“Previous work was neutral in terms of whether and how people use the content of their tattoos to make judgments for others and whether these judgments are accurate. Tattoo content can provide important information about these people in a similar way to affect judgments other external signs, e.g. Physical appearance, laptop stickers, ” The scientists explained in a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality.
The analysis of their research shows that people make judgments based on other people’s tattoos – for example, someone with a small, cute daisy tattoo will be perceived as a more friendly than someone with a large, repellent skull tattoo. If the tattoo had a cheerful or soothing motifs, its wearer was rated as more friendly. If the tattoo was of good quality or rather specific, the person was perceived as conscientious.
Large or traditional tattoos They gave the impression that their The owner is extroverted, while minor tattoos or tattoos with death motifs led to the fact that The person was perceived as neurotic. And if it was tattoos large or consisted of pictures rather than words. His bearer was considered to be more open to new experiences.
However, these assumptions were mostly incorrect and did not reflect the real personality of tattoo owners. The only important link was that people open to new experiences had more often unusual tattoos.
