This research aims to investigate whether individuals use categories of objects to classify cues inside a bedroom and to find relations between those clusters and occupants' personality traits. Three studies were conducted. A list of the most significant belongings inside residents' bedrooms was obtained from the pilot study. The second study (N = 81) indicated the existence of two categories of objects: Functional and Symbolic. The third study (N = 277) showed that the dimensions of Competence and Warmth, proposed by the Stereotype Content Model, were associated to the functional and symbolic categories of the objects respectively. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.