The genetics of beliefs
Nathan Cofnas wrote a great piece the other day, Beating Woke with Facts and Logic, which included this part: Beliefs Aren’t Genetically Determined Should we execute murderers? Raise taxes on…
IQ is the most predictive variable in social science*
You will often find intelligence researchers and enjoyers make claims like the following: g can be said to be the mostpowerful single predictor of overall job performance. First, no other…
The gender equality ‘paradox’ and genetics
There's a number of studies that find that egalitarian cultural values correlates with larger not smaller actual measured sex differences. These are the first major studies using large international surveys:…
Personality and politics of 263 occupations
Recently, I wrote about a great study showing the intelligence and crude personality differences between 300+ jobs. There is now a replication of this using a set of 263 occupations…
Personality structure problems
In hereditarian circles, there's a lot of talk about the general factor of personality (GFP). Briefly, the data shows that if you take typical Big Five (OCEAN) tests, they tend…
The Psychology of Politics (1954) by Hans Eysenck (review)
Hans Eysenck. The Psychology of Politics. 1963 (first published 1954). From time to time, I like to read old books to get a sense of what people were interested in…
Getting personality right
This post covers some stuff already covered by others, but more briefly. Two studies of interest: Riemann, R., Angleitner, A., & Strelau, J. (1997). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Personality:…
Gender differences in personality: a ratio scale approach
One of the things that bother me with the current research on gender differences in personality is the reference group approach problem. Researchers ask questions that require participants to make…
Paper: Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness (Katherine A MacLean, Matthew W Johnson, and Roland R Griffiths)
Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness Abstract A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that…
Personality psychology, five factor model and online tests
Since hearing about the five factor model (FFM), i have had an interest in personality psychology. I'm very happy that someone has invented a proper test so that we can…