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Some scholars have presented models of the United States as a set of “nations” with distinct settlement histories and contemporary cultures. We examined personality differences in one such model, that of Colin Woodard, using data from over 75,000 respondents. Four nations were particularly distinct: The Deep South, Left Coast, New Netherland, and t...
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... however, the most drastic change was in New Netherland, which was reduced to just two counties. The redrawn map is shown in Figure 5. ...
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... respect to geography, alternate models of American regions could be considered (e.g., Fischer, 1991;Garreau, 1981;Lieske, 1993). An initial redrawing of the boundaries for several nations is possible using data from this work (e.g., Figure 5), and could be improved even further through efforts to sample more strategically from counties that are underrepresented, whether due to small population sizes or inadequate sampling -particularly in areas that are rural, lower socioeconomic status, and with lower levels of internet usage. More detailed specifications of personality would include the use of higher dimensional trait models, such as the 27-factor SAPA Personality Inventory (Condon, 2018), or even more informa tionally rich data sources such as the modeling of regional language patterns, or online behaviors (Condon & Mõttus, 2021). ...
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... [22][23][24] Woodard 17 applied the concept to posit that North America north of the 25th parallel consists of 11 major regional cultures. This American Nations model has been applied to explain differences in entrepreneurship, 25 economic development, 26 mortality, 27 gender wage gaps, 28 personality characteristics, 29 gun violence, 18 and voting behavior. 30 The unique identities of the American Nations are listed in Table 1. ...
... This richness and diversity are also found in the large-scale samples (taken together, the analyses of this Theme Bundle rest on spatially-aggregated psychological data from over 6 million individuals) and the many spatial levels that are being investigated. In keeping with Personality Science's vision and explicit focus on a broad, inclusive understanding of personality (Rauthmann, 2020), work published in this Theme Bundle looks at constructs as different as honesty-humility (Lanning et al., 2022), narrative identity (Dunlop & Wilkinson Westberg, 2022), the Big Five (Junkins et al., 2021), implicit bias (Talaifar et al., 2022), and well-being (Chan et al., 2022). Moreover, if the current articles can be seen as an adequate representation of their field (and we believe they can), then the study of intranational personality differences also appears to be a field that (1) unites scholars from different psychological (sub-) disciplines and across all career stages and (2) is committed to open science practices (i.e., all four empirical papers provide open materials, two papers were pre-registered, and two papers share all their data). ...
