Ted Schwaba
@tedmond.bsky.social
psych professor, MSU. personality and environments and genes and the tangle all between! Also music opinions! tedmond.net
Wrote up my annual list of top albums! One of my favorite little winter break traditions.
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Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.
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Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Wrote up my annual list of top albums! One of my favorite little winter break traditions.
tedmond.net/teds-top-5-a...
Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.
tedmond.net/teds-top-5-a...
Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.
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"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."
December 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
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Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social
What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?
What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?
December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social
What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?
What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?
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Ever wondered whether we could map personality profiles as we do with genetic or brain data? We applied a similar method to explore similarities and differences of NEO PI profiles in our fresh-out paper. Here’s what we found 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Unity and Diversity of NEO-PI Personality Profiles of 162 Phenotypes - Kerli Ilves, Yueh en Wang, Kenn Konstabel, Ants Adamson, Kersten Kõrge, Aire Raidvee, Alain Dagher, René Mõttus, Uku Vainik, 2025
For over 30 years, detailed personality-phenotype association profiles based on the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) have been published, yet the phenotype pr...
journals.sagepub.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Ever wondered whether we could map personality profiles as we do with genetic or brain data? We applied a similar method to explore similarities and differences of NEO PI profiles in our fresh-out paper. Here’s what we found 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
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December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
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1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature
Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hi all, thanks to everyone who reposted. I am still seeking guest lecturers. Please reach out if you are willing or can recommend someone who would be a good fit. I appreciate your help!
Hi all, it's that time of year again. I'm looking for guest lecturers for my undergrad Psych Disorders course in the spring. I'd especially love folks with expertise in bipolar disorders, borderline, substance use, ADHD/autism, and basically anything that is stigmatized or misunderstood.
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hi all, thanks to everyone who reposted. I am still seeking guest lecturers. Please reach out if you are willing or can recommend someone who would be a good fit. I appreciate your help!
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Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Want to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke.
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
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This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
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I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
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Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...
Missing Heritability Revisited
Following up on Sasha
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Blog post: A Missing Heritability Update. Three legs and other problems. I follow up on the recent excellent post on the subject by @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/missing-he...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.
Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.
Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.
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It's time for my annual reminder that Thanksgiving will (likely) be more meaningful than you think 🦃
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's time for my annual reminder that Thanksgiving will (likely) be more meaningful than you think 🦃
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We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.
New results, in 3 figures: 🧵
1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
New results, in 3 figures: 🧵
1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.
New results, in 3 figures: 🧵
1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
New results, in 3 figures: 🧵
1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
Opinion: The Smashing Pumpkins are currently the most influential rock band in the world -- and maybe the most underrated (in that people think they were good, but they were *GREAT*)
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Opinion: The Smashing Pumpkins are currently the most influential rock band in the world -- and maybe the most underrated (in that people think they were good, but they were *GREAT*)
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Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
Unpacking Broad Racial Labels: The Disaggregation of Data on Race and Ethnicity: https://osf.io/eyv7b
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Another reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
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Cool! I do remember attending a session in ECP21 were this paper (doi.org/10.1038/ncom...) was discussed, cool stuff! Would you think that stocasticity might be the key factor here? And could it actually be a source of variability behind individual differences in humans?
Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions - Nature Communications
Genetically-identical animals experiencing the same environmental conditions should develop, in theory, identical behavioral traits. However, Bierbachet al. show here that behavioral differences still...
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Cool! I do remember attending a session in ECP21 were this paper (doi.org/10.1038/ncom...) was discussed, cool stuff! Would you think that stocasticity might be the key factor here? And could it actually be a source of variability behind individual differences in humans?
came across a fun article on personality in C. Elegans
"Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
came across a fun article on personality in C. Elegans
"Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The latest podcast is with psychologist and openness to experiences expert Ted Schwaba, who walks me through this mysterious, awe-inspiring (literally) personality trait substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Separates "Curious Nerds" From Everyone Else
Episode 3 of Why We're Like This, about openness to experiences
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November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The latest podcast is with psychologist and openness to experiences expert Ted Schwaba, who walks me through this mysterious, awe-inspiring (literally) personality trait substack.com/home/post/p-...
What's the social psych term for "a group that one feels compelled to sort a person into?" Like, whenever I meet a person, my brain automatically tries to answer "what is their gender?" -- it's very hard for me to consider a person sans gender.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
What's the social psych term for "a group that one feels compelled to sort a person into?" Like, whenever I meet a person, my brain automatically tries to answer "what is their gender?" -- it's very hard for me to consider a person sans gender.
Out now at PSPR: our love letter to the personality trait of Openness!
Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Out now at PSPR: our love letter to the personality trait of Openness!
Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers)
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
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a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight
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1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics
Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
Genetic associations with educational fields - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses of 10 educational fields identify 17 associated loci. Analysis of genetic clustering across specializations identifies two key dimensions that show genetic overlap with personalit...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics
Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
On my calendar today I have scheduled "zoom GWAS" for 1pm. Current me has no idea what this refers to, there's no zoom link, no other guests, nothing in my last month of emails provides a clue. SO I'm just going to anxiously await an email at 1:05pm that says "where are you?" SORRY to whomever!
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
On my calendar today I have scheduled "zoom GWAS" for 1pm. Current me has no idea what this refers to, there's no zoom link, no other guests, nothing in my last month of emails provides a clue. SO I'm just going to anxiously await an email at 1:05pm that says "where are you?" SORRY to whomever!