Unchartered Territories: Introduction to the Theme Bundle on Intranational Variation in Personality
Journal
Personality Science
Type
journal issue (edt.)
Date Issued
2023
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Abstract
Powered by the rise of big data, over the past 15 years, an emerging new literature has begun to accumulate evidence for intranational (i.e., within-country) geographical variation in diverse aspects of personality (Rentfrow et al., 2008; Götz et al., 2022). Since then, systematic spatial clustering of personality characteristics has been shown to exist in various countries around the globe, such as China (Talhelm et al., 2014), Germany (Ebert et al., 2022), Japan (Yoshino & Oshio, 2022), Russia (Allik et al., 2009), Switzerland (Götz et al., 2018), the U.K. (Jokela et al., 2015), and the U.S. (Rentfrow, 2010). These intranational personality differences are related to a range of consequential political, economic, social, and health outcomes on both the macro- and the micro-level. Such outcomes range from election results (Garretsen et al., 2018), regional crime rates (Rentfrow et al., 2013), technological innovation (Mewes et al., 2022), and Covid-19 spread (Peters et al., 2022) to individual spending behavior (Ebert et al., 2021) and self-esteem (Bleidorn et al., 2016). With this Theme Bundle we sought to bring together a broad array of researchers, samples, and methodologies to further consolidate and expand the budding field of intranational personality differences.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
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