Behavior patterns and emotion aren’t the first things we think of when we think of computers. But it turns out that computers are pretty adept at judging our personality traits – and in some cases they are better than our own friends and family. When it comes to openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism a computer that has been fed a steady diet of our Facebook likes “knows” us as well as a spouse.

New Stanford research finds computers are better judges of personality than friends and family