Are kinsfolk in California really laid back ? Are New Yorkers really uncivil ? Wonder no longer , because now a team of researchers has map out personality clusters across the US and present them in this fascinating set of maps .
commingle data from five surveys , totaling responses from about 1.6 million people , Peter J. Rentfrow and his fellow recentlypublished their results in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . They excuse :
There is overwhelming evidence for regional pas seul across the United States on a scope of key political , economical , social , and health indicant . However , a solid organic structure of research suggests that activities in each of these domains are typically influenced by psychological variables , raise the theory that psychological forces might be the mediating or causal factors responsible for for regional variation in key index number .
There are three main clusters : favorable and established , relaxed and originative , and temperamental and uninhibited . It ’s not clear that each DoS really adheres to one character , but it ’s an interesting lot of results , and kinda confirms some existing stereotypes . You cango record the original research here . [ Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyviaFlowing Data ]
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