To Live Among Like-Minded Others

Bleidorn, Wiebke; Schönbrodt, Felix D.; Gebauer, Jochen E.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Potter, Jeff; Gosling, Samuel D.

doi:10.1177/0956797615627133

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“…Besides political affiliation, a person may be more likely to migrate to a neighborhood in which the person's self-image closely matches the perceived typical resident (Sirgy, Grzeskowiak, & Su, 2005). The benefits of this type of person-environment fit have been found at the city level: a better fit between the aggregated personality of a city and a city's resident is associated with higher self-esteem of the resident (Bleidorn et al, 2016). Additionally, characteristics of a neighborhood, such as its affluence or ethnic diversity, impact the individual differences of resident children and adolescents, such as their cognitive ability and behavioral problems (for a review, see Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000).…”

Section: Us Zip Codes May Better Aggregate Personality Than Statesmentioning

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Smaller is better: Associations between personality and demographics are improved by examining narrower traits and regions

Elleman¹,

Condon²,

Holtzman³

et al. 2020

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The personality of individuals is clustered by geographic regions; a resident of a region is more similar to another resident than to a random non-resident. Research in geographical psychology often has focused on this clustering effect in broad regions, such as countries and states, using broad domains of personality, such as the Big Five. We examined the extent to which (a) a narrower geographic unit, the U.S. ZIP Code, accounted for more variance explained in aggregating personality than a broader region, the U.S. state; and (b) progressively narrower personality traits (domains, facets, and nuances, respectively) provided more information in describing personality-demographic relationships. Results from this study (n_participants = 39,886, n_zipcodes = 2,074) indicated that the variance explained by aggregating personality was multiple times as large for U.S. ZIP Codes than for states (median = 4.4). At the level of personality domains, ZIP Code population density and income disparity were positively correlated with Openness and negatively correlated with Conscientiousness and Agreeableness. Facets within each domain were differentially correlated with each demographic, which demonstrated that facets added information to the personality-demographic relationships beyond that of domains. Item-level analysis revealed the most informative finding: population density and income disparity were positively associated with personality nuances related to politically liberal beliefs, anti-authoritarian attitudes, lower concern for abiding by rules and laws, and greater beliefs of self-exceptionalism. Findings suggest that future studies in geographical and personality psychology could benefit from using the narrowest feasible unit of analysis.

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Section: Us Zip Codes May Better Aggregate Personality Than Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smaller is better: Associations between personality and demographics are improved by examining narrower traits and regions

Elleman¹,

Condon²,

Holtzman³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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“…It builds on the established trait psychology approach (Hofstede & McCrae, 2004;McCrae, 2001). This approach finds considerable empirical support by individual-level research regarding the effect of such personality profiles, as well as by results at an aggregate regional level, that have indicated regional variations of personality differences in general (Bleidorn et al, 2016;Rentfrow et al, 2008;Talhelm et al, 2014).…”

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Historical roots of entrepreneurship-facilitating culture and innovation activity: an analysis for German regions

2019

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There is a research gap with respect to understanding the role of cultural attitudes in favour of entrepreneurial activity for actual start-up behaviour. The paper combines historical self-employment data with a psychological measure for entrepreneurial attitudes. The results reveal a positive relationship between the historical level of self-employment in a region and the presence of people with an entrepreneurial personality structure today. This measure is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also to the amount of innovation activity.

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“…As such, geographic clustering and averaging aggregations of psychological variables (or phenomena) at different levels, are not just subjects to be analyzed, but also normative group constraints affecting individual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Utilizing data from over 500 thousands of residents of 860 cities in United States, Bleidorn et al (2016) examined whether the fit between individuals' personality traits and averaging aggregation of personality traits of the city's where they live, would predict individuals' self-esteem. The results confirmed the effects of person-city personality fit on self-esteem.…”

Section: Geographical Analysis Of Psychological Phenomena At Differenmentioning

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Where You Are Is Who You Are? The Geographical Account of Psychological Phenomena

Chen

Lai

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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Geographical psychology aims to study the spatial distribution of psychological phenomenon at different levels of geographical analysis and their relations to macrolevel important societal outcomes. The geographical perspective provides a new way of understanding interactions between humankind psychological processes and distal macro-environments. Studies have identified the spatial organizations of a wide range of psychological constructs, including (but not limited among) personality, individualism/collectivism, cultural tightness-looseness, and well-being; these variations have been plotted over a range of geographical units (e.g., neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries) and have been linked to a broad array of political, economic, social, public health, and other social consequences. Future research should employ multilevel analysis, taking advantage of more deliberated causality test methods and big data techniques, to further examine the emerging and evolving mechanisms of geographical differences in psychological phenomena.

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To Live Among Like-Minded Others

Cited by 144 publications

References 24 publications

Smaller is better: Associations between personality and demographics are improved by examining narrower traits and regions

Smaller is better: Associations between personality and demographics are improved by examining narrower traits and regions

Historical roots of entrepreneurship-facilitating culture and innovation activity: an analysis for German regions

Where You Are Is Who You Are? The Geographical Account of Psychological Phenomena

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