Geographical Traits
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 10:51 am
Researcher Makes Map of America According to Personality TraitsTeresa Neumann (October 6, 2008)
"Even after controlling for variables such as race, income and education levels, a state's dominant personality turns out to be strongly linked to certain outcomes."
Which comes first; the stereotype or the reality?
Trying to answer that question, as part of a project on the "geography of personality", lead researcher Peter Jason Rentfrow at the University of Cambridge in England, conducted research based on over 600,000 questionnaires and subsequently produced a map depicting regional clusters of personality traits. The results of the research—which Rentfrow, who spent his life "hop-scotching" across America, said "blew him away"—was published in the Journal of Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Depending on where one resides geographically, they are rather amusing: "The stressed-out New Yorker. The laid-back Californian. The conscientious Floridian. The neurotic Kentuckian."
I repent of everything I have said about Gerald. I simply never knew
"Even after controlling for variables such as race, income and education levels, a state's dominant personality turns out to be strongly linked to certain outcomes."
Which comes first; the stereotype or the reality?
Trying to answer that question, as part of a project on the "geography of personality", lead researcher Peter Jason Rentfrow at the University of Cambridge in England, conducted research based on over 600,000 questionnaires and subsequently produced a map depicting regional clusters of personality traits. The results of the research—which Rentfrow, who spent his life "hop-scotching" across America, said "blew him away"—was published in the Journal of Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Depending on where one resides geographically, they are rather amusing: "The stressed-out New Yorker. The laid-back Californian. The conscientious Floridian. The neurotic Kentuckian."
I repent of everything I have said about Gerald. I simply never knew