psychology
Steve Hsu: Information Processing
Steve Hsu is a physics professor at the University of Oregon. I stumbled across some fun things on his blog. Among my favorites:
* Learning how to fight [Our interests converge already]
* Thinking in terms of probability distributions [the most important skill in science and engineering, and life]
* Psychometrics works [I&
Laws of Human Nature: The Map is not the Territory
The first article I read about the laws of human nature today was about a numerical simulation of the Peter Principle, which states that employees keep getting promoted until the point where they can no longer perform their jobs well. This simulation is pretty clever, but I don't
First Impressions
A fun open access paper about personality judgments based on seeing just a picture of someone. One of the authors is Samuel Gosling, whose work lies behind the online Big 5 personality test I recommend to the curious. You can learn a lot just by looking at someone, and in
New study reveals most children unrepentant sociopaths
New study reveals most children unrepentant sociopaths
A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures
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Personality Traits as Natural
See part I, Personality Traits as Potentia.
A further difficulty I have encountered when talking about personality traits such as conscientiousness is their heritability. When I say that a personality trait like C is about 50% heritable, I am often greeted with unbelief. How can this be so?
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Personality Traits as Potentia
Lately, I've been thinking of personality traits such as those quantified by the OCEAN model. A major conceptual difficulty I run into when talking to people about these traits is their innate imprecision. For example, the Openness to Experience trait is correlated with political liberalism, but you probably