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...

I was wondering why this photo felt familiar and then I realized my profile pic is just me cosplaying as this flower

Trump's "university compact" is blatantly transphobic and deeply evil stuff. Any university that agrees to this kneels to fascism.

...And here's conscientiousness. Sorry, conscientiousness. Bluesky only allows 4 images per post.

If you're teaching about lifespan personality development, and you want to include Bleidorn + colleagues (2022) meta-analysis, I made some prettier plots than the ones in our paper. (Y axis is cohen's d)

(Alternately, if you've never read our paper, check out these plots!)

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We applied GSI to compare patterns of genetic sharing in psychiatric disorders across cisgender males and females. We found MUCH more similarity than difference, especially for psychotic and internalizing disorders. Genetic effects on neurodevelopmental disorders appeared more sex-differentiated.

New commentary in American Psychologist with the legendary @jadler.bsky.social on posttraumatic growth: why all parts of it can use some revision (like those suggested by others in this issue!), and why it's a fool's errand to predict PTG before it happens.

doi.org/10.1037/amp0... (open access!!)

The schedule is set and registration is live for the SPSP 2024 Personality Science Preconference, Feb 8th 8AM-noon (++ Happiness and Well-being Preconf. in the afternoon).

Register here: spsp.org/events/annua.... Early bird registration ends in 1 month!

Do you guys have the efrutti suite of gummy fast food over there? They're deliciously plastic-y. I grew up sincerely believing it was a pun on "e. coli" because there's a weird period in the middle of the word.

Personality Philosophy!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shout-out to my fellow Gizzheads

Be the change you want to see in the world

Some great advice on coping with the inevitability of (personality) change in close relationships:

(From Wellness by Nathan Hill)

Thanks for clarifying -- Looks like my extremely cursory Google search on mortality SD was incorrect haha (c'mon homework.study.com ...)

(I still am upset about the title decision of advertising the maximum plausible effect size from comparisons at the margins. It certainly misled me)

C'mon nutrition researchers. No way that the food we eat explains 50% of the variation in something as multidetermined as how long we live. There's soooooo many ways to die! (78 +/- 5 years is the avg lifespan, so 10 years is a d of 2ish, r squared of .5ish)

Looking up the best selling video games of all time. Each game's sales are rounded to the ten thousands, except for pac man whose sales are EXACTLY 42,071,635