Interpretation by psychologists: This is how much your e-mail inbox reveals about your personality

Do you delete read emails as quickly as possible?

Or do they only end up in the trash when there is no other way?

How psychologists interpret our email behavior.

Have you ever thought about how you

handle

your e-mails privately or

?

Then you may have found yourself saving

that you no longer need for a while.

In the event that you would like to come back to it later.

Or you are more the type who

, after answering them quickly, actually deletes your

or moves them to an archive folder that is emptied regularly.

So your mailbox is never (too) full.

With the risk that in the worst case one or the other piece of information will be lost that you might still need in the end.

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Psychology

comes

into play

at the latest when the

.

Unread e-mails alone in their

cause

for many people

, according to a survey of more than 1,100 people aged 18 and over, which became known in 2015, according to the opinion research institute YouGov.

According to this, 86 percent of those surveyed tried to get the number of unread messages in their mailbox to zero.

What was noticeable, however, was that while ten new e-mails did not bother most of the respondents, or not at all (79 percent), 761 survey participants said that

Some

go a step further and draw conclusions from e-mail behavior about certain personal characteristics.

The Business Insider, who took a closer look at the topic, quotes various experts.

Among others the psychologist Larry Rosen and author of "iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming its Hold on Us".

"A large, exploding inbox triggers stress-based neurotransmitters such as cortisol, which make him nervous," the "Business Insider" quotes the author.

A

reduce this

at least temporarily.

According to Rosen, the strategy for dealing with e-mails depends on the

.

In this way, "sorters" or "erasers" of e-mails could, by sticking to an e-mail clean-up system, fulfill their constant need for order, or so the thesis, put simply.

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Keeping every email - a sign of perfectionism?

What about the type of “keeper” of e-mails who has a few unread e-mails in their mailbox and rarely deletes read messages?

At this point, Business Insider lets the director of the Media Psychology Research Center, Pamela Rutledge, have the say, who has various potential explanations for such behavior.

For example: "Perfectionists keep read e-mails with the thought in the back of their minds that they will come back to them [at some point]", the expert is quoted in the article.

And the “

” who in turn does not (necessarily) read his e-mails and does not delete them?

The Business Insider quotes the author Ron Friedman ("The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace").

Even though Friedman warned against “drawing general conclusions about personality and mental state based on e-mail habits,” he had a few possible explanations for such behavior: It could either mean that one (from the E -Mails) is "overwhelmed", so one possible interpretation.

Or it is a

.

Because you sort of realize that you're not making progress by monitoring and organizing other people's emails.

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Set priorities: Which tasks in the job come first?

Apart from what psychologists say: In individual cases - and depending on the job - everyone has to decide for themselves how urgent it is to process the

immediately or during the course of the day - and to

.

The experts at “Karrierbibel.de” have a basic advice: “In the best case scenario, you should use the first hours of the day to work on the

.

On the other hand, if you start with your e-mails, you won't have time elsewhere. ”You should of course still react quickly to an important e-mail that requires a quick response.

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Job experts advise: Keep your emails tidy

At the same time, the job experts advise you to keep your

.

"If you deal with a lot of emails every day, you should definitely consider a suitable

," says Karrierbibel.de.

For this you need "different folders in your mailbox" - for example for certain projects or tasks that you still have to do or for which you are waiting for feedback.

The effect is: "If you have copied your e-mails into the appropriate folder and redirected, you are

."

As far as deletion is concerned, the experts have this advice, for example: “What is

should be saved in an email archive.

Everything else can be deleted instead of keeping it for months or even years. ”(

Sources: Businessinsider.de;

Karrierbibel.de

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