Cover image via Pond5If you're an iPhone user, you're gonna want to sit down for this.
A recent study has found that people who use iPhones tend to be less trustworthy and humble when compared to Android users.
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The study, [published](http://bit.ly/trustiphone) in the journal 'Cyberpsychology, Behaviour, and Social Networking' in November, involved asking 240 participants to complete a questionnaire about the characteristics they associated with iPhone and Android users.
The results are then tested against 530 real-world smartphone users. This was where they found that **the first group's assumed stereotypes did not match up with their findings from the second group of people**.
The study, conducted by psychologists from several UK universities, discovered that iPhone users are more likely to be female, younger, and care very much about their smartphones being seen as a status symbol
People who use iPhones are also said to have **higher levels of emotionality and more likely to be extroverted**.
According to Heather Shaw, one of the psychologists involved in the study, **an individual's smartphone choice can tell you a lot about the user**.
"This study provides new insights into personality differences between different types of smartphone users. Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalisation, and even this can tell us a lot about the user," she explained.
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In contrast, Android users – who are more likely to be male and older – are less interested in wealth and social status
The study also concludes that they are **more honest, humble, agreeable, open, and less likely to break rules for personal gain** compared to their iPhone-owning counterparts.
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The sample of participants may be small, but the researchers were still able to use their findings to build a statistical model that can predict whether you are an iPhone or Android user with 70% accuracy
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All you have to do is answer a set of questions. You can find the statistical model [here](https://psychology.shinyapps.io/smartphonepersonality/).
Moving on, the researchers are considering diving deeper into the differences in regards to app ownership
"Imagine if we further researched **how personality traits relate to the applications people download.** It is becoming more and more apparent that smartphones are becoming a mini digital version of the user, and many of us don't like it when other people use our phones because it can reveal so much about us," Shaw said.
