What changes when we attempt to measure personality outside of the contexts where the instruments were developed and validated? In episode 57, we’re joined by Karen Macours from the Paris School of Economics about her research into practical issues with using a popular Big Five personality measures outside of western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic settings.
Anthropologists find that participation in rituals involving pain and suffering may lead to greater subjective well-being due to emotional regulation during the ordeal as well as socially communicative elements of ritual performance itself.
61 years of data collected from cohort of 18,000 people suggest an association between depression among young adults and cognitive decline in later life.
Prior guest Nicole Creanza finds that sexual selection may lead to larger syllable and song repertoires in songbird species, possibly explaining why learning a second language is more difficult for adult humans.
People project eating between 71% to 97% of various refrigerated foods, but actually consume half that, largely because of ambiguous "use by" labeling.
