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Who’s Your State
Cambridge researcher and MPI affiliate and collaborator, Jason Rentfrow, in today’s Financial Times: Many of the cultural stereotypes of Americans – such as the neurotic New Yorker, the friendly...
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Analyze This
The relationship between our personalities and our choice of locations is one of the hottest topics for understanding cities and urban areas. A new study in Psychological Science shows the connection...
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What Makes Happy States
So the past couple of days at the MPI – under the ever-watchful analytical eye of Charlotta Mellander – we took the Gallup happy states data and compared it to various measures of state economies....
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Geography of Personality
MapScroll links to a series of “new and improved” maps of Big Five personality types from the expanded (Canadian) edition of my book Who’s Your City?. Based on data collected by Cambridge University...
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What Your Playlist Says About You
What does the music you listen to say about your personality, and what determines the kinds of music we like? Watch this video by path-breaking Cambridge University psychologist Jason Rentfrow and...
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