The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Personality 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.

Method

We 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.

Results

Urban areas were positively associated with openness to experience and

SUBMITTER: Militaru IE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952236 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature