Regional Personality Differences in Great Britain
@article{Rentfrow2015RegionalPD, title={Regional Personality Differences in Great Britain}, author={P. Rentfrow and M. Jokela and M. Lamb}, journal={PLoS ONE}, year={2015}, volume={10} }
Recent investigations indicate that personality traits are unevenly distributed geographically, with some traits being more prevalent in certain places than in others. The geographical distributions of personality traits are associated with a range of important political, economic, social, and health outcomes. The majority of research on this subject has focused on the geographical distributions and macro-level correlates of personality across nations or regions of the United States. The aim of… CONTINUE READING
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