August 5, 2025 • 8 mins
A clinical psychologist recently conducted a study revealing what your phone lock screen says about your personality so of course, we had to put it to the test with our own listeners and run a little study of our own.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the fitting in Whip Her with Kate Richie podcast,
What is your.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lock screen image and what does that say about you?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the reason why we're talking about this is
because recently Tyler Swift and Travis Kelsey was seen at
a cocktail bar and they took a photo of themselves
in love and you could see Travis Kelcey's.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Lock screen image and it was a beautiful shot of
those two together. I mean, what was hers?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I would have liked to have known what hers was?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, you'd hope, you hope and pray, but Travis's on
hers as well.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Now I'd be a font of her holding like twenty
Grammys well.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Clinical psychologists and author doctor Rebecca Ray says that our
selection of lock screen image, the image that appears on startup,
can reveal a lot about personality.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And what we value in life.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We usually choose images we connect with emotionally, so your
lock screen can reflect what you value, or your love,
what grounds you, or even what your work with. So
a lot of people will put up a photo of
their partner, or their children or their family. Some people
put up celebrities or fictional characters that can bring joy
(01:12):
and creativity while quotes are a big motivational purpose as well,
A lot of people have.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Quotes thirteen twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What do you have on your lock screen that is
a little bit different to everybody else.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
One of the most frustrating things that I have with
my phone is when my children get hold of it
and they decide to turn my lock screen into a
photo of a Pooh. That's a bit of a game
that gets played. So I'll then go and pick up
my phone. I'll always because it's face down. Then I'll
turn it around and there's a good shot and turn
on my phone.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh Graham a sixty four year old Graham win He said,
my lock screen image is my beloved Jack Russell Meeker,
who died eight een months ago.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean something like that means, But doesn't that make
you sad? Every time you turn your phone on or
you look at your phone?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You got to remember the good times.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What you've got the Adelaide crows mate, or you got
got the cockle divers.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or no, I got a photo of the boys.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You've got a photo of the boys and it just
sums up their personalities, right.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I can't I can't actually get it at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Lenny's listening to rain sounds and nature sounds while he
sleeps at home, and for some reason it comes up
on my phone.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So it's a photo of the two boys in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Lenny's trying to make your laugh in the photo and
Hugh he's looking at him with disgust, and it sums
up the relationship between my two boys.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Tommy, what do you got what do you ride with?
In your list?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's a little bit embarrassing, but it's a photo of me.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Where are you at?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm in the office and we were having a brainstorm
and someone took a photo and I'm running on the
couch at work and.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You've chosen to keep a photo of yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, weird, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You're very similar to Donald Trump, who has a photo
of himself pointing out the screen. You're a narcissist. Let's
go to Sue in Blacktown. What's your lock screen?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I have a beautiful picture of a waterfall with
trees that I took in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, wow, and it reminds you of that holiday, does it, Sue?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It was for my fift years, so it definitely does.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It means, and it means so much more to you
than your husband. Obviously, Sue, I don't have a husband.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
A waterfall is a lot better than husband. As I've
always said.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Sue, I should possibly have my son. But you know,
I find peace in trees and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Water, don't go chasing them. So all right, Dean mascot,
what you got? What's your hobby got?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My husband's got the crow on his cook screen?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The Crow? Why the Crow? D?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
From the movie The Crow?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He likes it?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
How many times has he seen the movie The Crow?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I don't know, probably seen there like hundreds of time.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Is it? Is it weird?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is it wed D that he doesn't have you on
his lock screen and he has a crow?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I know, I don't know. I've got the picture of
my kids both.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, all right, let's go to Joe Lanio and picked in.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who's on your lockscreen? Jolie?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I actually have Taylor System my loss.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh yeah, is that a form of inspiration, do you think, Jolie?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, I've loved it for about seventeen eighteen years, so yeah,
come on, I.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Mean, do you have a favorite movie?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is a Gladiator?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You could put Russell Crowe on your screen or anything
like that? What do you, what do you have with
You have a feature.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Of Francesca, who's my third child. She's quite young there,
and I think she looks so soft and gentle.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It reminds me when she was a good child.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Did the other boys question why they're not on your lockscreen?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Maybe that's why it keeps getting turned into a picture
of a pooh?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Mary in Pendall Hill, Hello, Mary, Hi, you got bad.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I've got a picture of stone Cold Steve Austin on
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh Steve was Mary?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Why a picture of one of the greatest wrestlers of
all time?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because he's my favorite wrestler ever and I know my
son Austin him.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Mary, So you grew up really into wrestling, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I am still into wrestling.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You realize we're live on the radio. Don't you married?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Mary? Have you ever met stone Cold?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And Mary? Your real name's Mary?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
What about the Rock? Do you like the Rock?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He's all right, He's all right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And what about Hulk? Did you get emotional when the
Hulk passed away?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well that was a bit sad, but yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, yeah, make stone Cold?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If you can make that happen, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Okay, yes, sweet, Now we'll get him. Now, we'll get him. Yeah,
big morning for me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Get into it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If you've got the lock screen of starting cold, you are?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Mate?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What's the word you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, no, you're you are? You are a fast lost
lost is back from Castle Hill? Fee? What have you
got back?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I have my supercharged twenty twenty Mustang with seven hundred
horse power. I have three grandchildren, but they're not on there.
It's just my car.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You got one Mustage? Is that a Cobra?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, no, it's called an aspect. They only make five
hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And then and it's a fastback cio.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, no, no, no, it's called a Mustang twenty twenty aspect.
It's a sea charged one. They only make five hundred
of them.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It's arrow aspect. Yeah. Fee.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So so why has your daughter question you why you
don't have the grand child kids on the on the
lock screen or um?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, it actually surprises me but maybe yeah, I don't know.
She hasn't, but she knows that it's pretty special. Hobby
did say the other day, Oh, we could sell that
and do this with it, and I'm like, no, it's
not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What do you reckon that? What do you reckon the
pony's worth? Fiona?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, Aspect one sixteen bang, I'd get that on the
lock screen.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Money, it's about when you get in it, and yeah,
you just have to drive it like you stole it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Actually didn't tell our kids that we bought it. We
had to wait nine months for it and we made
the reveal. We made it like a baby reveal. They
all thought I was having another baby at fifty something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So you've got to You've got to take, Fiona, You've
got to take the car. They Mustang out to beat
the Blue this weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You can go up against the cops.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh absolutely, What color is it? Fee, Well, it's white
with black and it matches my twenty two Mustang got
I've got a white one as well. Wow, I'm very lucky.
We worked really hard.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It sounds are you gonna have Yeah, you're going to
work hard.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You have your toy?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You got three five one under the hood or what?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, it's well, it's super charged, so I don't know
how that works, but I just know it's seven hundred
and something horsebound you're not going.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
To believe in fee. I know nothing about cars.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
walk great shows like this.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Download the Nova player, find the app store, or Google
playing the player
This is the fitting in Whip Her with Kate Richie podcast,
What is your.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Lock screen image and what does that say about you?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the reason why we're talking about this is
because recently Tyler Swift and Travis Kelsey was seen at
a cocktail bar and they took a photo of themselves
in love and you could see Travis Kelcey's.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Lock screen image and it was a beautiful shot of
those two together. I mean, what was hers?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I would have liked to have known what hers was?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, you'd hope, you hope and pray, but Travis's on
hers as well.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Now I'd be a font of her holding like twenty
Grammys well.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Clinical psychologists and author doctor Rebecca Ray says that our
selection of lock screen image, the image that appears on startup,
can reveal a lot about personality.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And what we value in life.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We usually choose images we connect with emotionally, so your
lock screen can reflect what you value, or your love,
what grounds you, or even what your work with. So
a lot of people will put up a photo of
their partner, or their children or their family. Some people
put up celebrities or fictional characters that can bring joy
(01:12):
and creativity while quotes are a big motivational purpose as well,
A lot of people have.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Quotes thirteen twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What do you have on your lock screen that is
a little bit different to everybody else.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
One of the most frustrating things that I have with
my phone is when my children get hold of it
and they decide to turn my lock screen into a
photo of a Pooh. That's a bit of a game
that gets played. So I'll then go and pick up
my phone. I'll always because it's face down. Then I'll
turn it around and there's a good shot and turn
on my phone.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Oh Graham a sixty four year old Graham win He said,
my lock screen image is my beloved Jack Russell Meeker,
who died eight een months ago.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I mean something like that means, But doesn't that make
you sad? Every time you turn your phone on or
you look at your phone?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You got to remember the good times.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What you've got the Adelaide crows mate, or you got
got the cockle divers.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Or no, I got a photo of the boys.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You've got a photo of the boys and it just
sums up their personalities, right.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I can't I can't actually get it at the moment.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Lenny's listening to rain sounds and nature sounds while he
sleeps at home, and for some reason it comes up
on my phone.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
So it's a photo of the two boys in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Lenny's trying to make your laugh in the photo and
Hugh he's looking at him with disgust, and it sums
up the relationship between my two boys.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Tommy, what do you got what do you ride with?
In your list?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's a little bit embarrassing, but it's a photo of me.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Where are you at?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm in the office and we were having a brainstorm
and someone took a photo and I'm running on the
couch at work and.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You've chosen to keep a photo of yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, weird, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You're very similar to Donald Trump, who has a photo
of himself pointing out the screen. You're a narcissist. Let's
go to Sue in Blacktown. What's your lock screen?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So I have a beautiful picture of a waterfall with
trees that I took in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, wow, and it reminds you of that holiday, does it, Sue?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It was for my fift years, so it definitely does.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It means, and it means so much more to you
than your husband. Obviously, Sue, I don't have a husband.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
A waterfall is a lot better than husband. As I've
always said.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Sue, I should possibly have my son. But you know,
I find peace in trees and.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Water, don't go chasing them. So all right, Dean mascot,
what you got? What's your hobby got?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
My husband's got the crow on his cook screen?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The Crow? Why the Crow? D?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
From the movie The Crow?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He likes it?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Right?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
How many times has he seen the movie The Crow?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I don't know, probably seen there like hundreds of time.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Is it? Is it weird?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is it wed D that he doesn't have you on
his lock screen and he has a crow?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I know, I don't know. I've got the picture of
my kids both.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, all right, let's go to Joe Lanio and picked in.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Who's on your lockscreen? Jolie?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I actually have Taylor System my loss.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh yeah, is that a form of inspiration, do you think, Jolie?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, I've loved it for about seventeen eighteen years, so yeah,
come on, I.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Mean, do you have a favorite movie?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Is a Gladiator?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You could put Russell Crowe on your screen or anything
like that? What do you, what do you have with
You have a feature.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Of Francesca, who's my third child. She's quite young there,
and I think she looks so soft and gentle.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It reminds me when she was a good child.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Did the other boys question why they're not on your lockscreen?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Maybe that's why it keeps getting turned into a picture
of a pooh?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Mary in Pendall Hill, Hello, Mary, Hi, you got bad.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I've got a picture of stone Cold Steve Austin on
my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh Steve was Mary?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Why a picture of one of the greatest wrestlers of
all time?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Because he's my favorite wrestler ever and I know my
son Austin him.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Mary, So you grew up really into wrestling, did you?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I am still into wrestling.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You realize we're live on the radio. Don't you married?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Mary? Have you ever met stone Cold?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And Mary? Your real name's Mary?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
What about the Rock? Do you like the Rock?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
He's all right, He's all right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And what about Hulk? Did you get emotional when the
Hulk passed away?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well that was a bit sad, but yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, yeah, make stone Cold?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If you can make that happen, that'd be great.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Okay, yes, sweet, Now we'll get him. Now, we'll get him. Yeah,
big morning for me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Get into it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
If you've got the lock screen of starting cold, you are?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Mate?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What's the word you're looking for?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, no, you're you are? You are a fast lost
lost is back from Castle Hill? Fee? What have you
got back?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I have my supercharged twenty twenty Mustang with seven hundred
horse power. I have three grandchildren, but they're not on there.
It's just my car.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You got one Mustage? Is that a Cobra?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
No, no, it's called an aspect. They only make five
hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And then and it's a fastback cio.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, no, no, no, it's called a Mustang twenty twenty aspect.
It's a sea charged one. They only make five hundred
of them.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It's arrow aspect. Yeah. Fee.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So so why has your daughter question you why you
don't have the grand child kids on the on the
lock screen or um?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No, it actually surprises me but maybe yeah, I don't know.
She hasn't, but she knows that it's pretty special. Hobby
did say the other day, Oh, we could sell that
and do this with it, and I'm like, no, it's
not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What do you reckon that? What do you reckon the
pony's worth? Fiona?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, Aspect one sixteen bang, I'd get that on the
lock screen.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Money, it's about when you get in it, and yeah,
you just have to drive it like you stole it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Actually didn't tell our kids that we bought it. We
had to wait nine months for it and we made
the reveal. We made it like a baby reveal. They
all thought I was having another baby at fifty something.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So you've got to You've got to take, Fiona, You've
got to take the car. They Mustang out to beat
the Blue this weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You can go up against the cops.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh absolutely, What color is it? Fee, Well, it's white
with black and it matches my twenty two Mustang got
I've got a white one as well. Wow, I'm very lucky.
We worked really hard.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
It sounds are you gonna have Yeah, you're going to
work hard.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You have your toy?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
You got three five one under the hood or what?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, it's well, it's super charged, so I don't know
how that works, but I just know it's seven hundred
and something horsebound you're not going.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
To believe in fee. I know nothing about cars.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
walk great shows like this.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
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