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This week’s reading for PIG-IE is Kandler et al (2012). Left or Right? Sources of political orientation: The roles of genetic factors, cultural transmission, assortative mating, and personality.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 633-645. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/46388790/PIGIE/Kandler%20et%20al%202012%20BG%20of%20political%20orientation.pdf Enjoy and leave … Continue reading →

It seems a critical mass of papers, blogs, articles, and comments has hit the field of social and personality psychology in the last few months.  So much so, that I thought it would be constructive to catalogue everything that has … Continue reading →

Inspired by Rich Lucas’s recent analysis of the type 1 error rates underlying Daryl Bem’s approach to running his ESP research, we decided to write a little missive ourselves.  Please comment. Psychological Science has a Serious Problem: The Bem Fallout … Continue reading →

Feeling guilty about not making it to Pig-E?  Maybe you shouldn’t worry about it.  According to Rick Robin’s latest JPSP article (he’s replaced Ed Diener as the monthly JPSP columnist), feeling guilty may not be so bad.  On the other … Continue reading →

Remember that “little” paper by Almlund, Duckworth, Heckman, & Kautz that we read at the beginning of the semester–roughly 90 pages or so?  It has been revised.  It is now 248 pages.  The authors are taking comments: Almlund et al

ITS_JRP Here’s a paper by Peter Molenaar presenting a model of personality based on the explicit examination of within-person variation rather than between-person variation.  We’ll discuss this Monday, 11/15  

Belsky and Pluess 2009 Here is the Belsky and Pluess paper we discussed on 11/1/10.  Comments are welcomed.

small behavioral ecologist’s perspective on personality .63.  That is the correlation between a set of “exploratory” behaviors measured over ten occasions in one social group with a set of “exploratory” behaviors measured in over ten occasions in a separate social … Continue reading →