1. The personality of U.S. states: Stability from 1999 to 2015
- Author
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Lorien G. Elleman, William Revelle, David M. Condon, and Sarah E. Russin
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Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Replication ,050109 social psychology ,Single sample ,Stability (probability) ,050105 experimental psychology ,Article ,Big Five ,Aggregate personality ,Scale generalizability ,Openness to experience ,Personality ,Regional differences ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociodemographic ,Big Five personality traits ,General Psychology ,Online personality assessment ,media_common ,05 social sciences ,Conscientiousness ,Neuroticism ,Personality of U.S. states ,Psychology ,Demography - Abstract
Researchers have shown an interest in the aggregated Big Five personality of U.S. states, but typically they have relied on scores from a single sample (Rentfrow, Gosling, & Potter, 2008). We examine the replicability of U.S. state personality scores from two studies (Rentfrow et al., 2008; Rentfrow, Gosling, Jokela, & Stillwell, 2013) across a total of seven samples, two of them new. Same-trait correlations across samples are, on average, positive for all five traits, indicating score agreement. Additionally, three traits (Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness) show strongly consistent patterns of correlations with sociodemographic variables across samples. We find rank order stability in state personality scores for a 16-year period (1999-2015).
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- 2018