Mapping Honesty and Property Crime

Sep 18, 2016 by

Mapping Honesty and Property Crime

[This post was originally published in October 2013] Honesty, like other personality traits, is notoriously difficult to test, let alone map. A rather ingenious new study attempted to measure honesty in an unusual way. Instead of...

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The Geography of Sin

Sep 18, 2016 by

The Geography of Sin

[This post was originally published in February 2012] As discussed in earlier posts, abstract concepts such as personality or happiness can be mapped. A few years ago, geographers from Kansas State University tried to map the spatial...

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The Geography of Happiness—According to Twitter

Sep 18, 2016 by

The Geography of Happiness—According to Twitter

[This post was originally published in March 2013] A recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Vermont, once again looked into the question of where happy people live. Previous studies on the geography of...

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Problems with “Geography of Personality” Research

Sep 18, 2016 by

Problems with “Geography of Personality” Research

[This post was originally published in November 2012] While research on the geography of personality, such as the 2008 study by Rentfrow and colleagues, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science and described in the previous...

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The United States of Mind

Sep 18, 2016 by

The United States of Mind

[This post was originally published in November 2012] When I moved from upstate New York to California some five years ago, the culture shock was almost as significant as when I had moved from Russia to Israel, then to Canada, then...

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