ArticleJournal of personality2024
The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality.
Article in Journal of personality, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Regional Personality Variation in Sweden: Trait Clusters, Links to Health and Well-Being, and Historical Context.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Does a Small Country Have Meaningful Regional Personality Differences? The Case of Estonia.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality.Journal of personality · 2024Article
- Self-concept among Indonesian adolescents in coastal areas: A cross-sectional study.Belitung nursing journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivePersonality traits cluster across countries, regions, cities, and neighborhoods. What drives the formation of these clusters? Ecological theory suggests that physical locations shape humans' patterns of behaviors and psychological characteristics. Based on this theory, we examined whether and how differential land-cover relates to individual personality.
methodWe followed a preregistered three-pronged analysis approach to investigate the associations between personality (N = 2,690,878) and land-cover across the United States. We used eleven land-cover categories to classify landscapes and tested their association with personality against broad physical and socioeconomic factors.
resultsUrban areas were positively associated with openness to experience and negatively associated with conscientiousness. Coastal areas were positively associated with openness to experience and neuroticism but negatively associated with agreeableness and conscientiousness. Cultivated areas were negatively associated with openness. Landscapes at the periphery of human activity, such as shrubs, bare lands, or permanent snows, were not reliably associated with personality traits.
conclusionsBivariate correlations, multilevel, and random forest models uncovered robust associations between landscapes and personality traits. These findings align with ecological theory suggesting that an individual's environment contributes to their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.
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