I surveyed 4 personality handbooks and asked 2600 people how important it is to study each topic (from 1 to 5). All were rated above midpoint (yay!), but mental health/psychopathology, genetics/heritability/neurology, emotion regulation/happiness, and change/identity stood out.

Having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card!

Yeah? Well fuck you too Spotify.

I've started the habit of drinking out of this glass beaker during meetings with students. Every couple of minutes, I make my eye twitch and cough VERY violently.

Hey everyone, I'm excited to show you my FIRST Op-Ed! Hope this doesn't upset anyone.

There's been a university truck parked in our lot for nearly *four* years--unmoved and untouched. I've started putting fake "parking tickets" on their windshield every time I walk by. Folks...I don't think they're gonna notice anytime soon.

CRL Lab is at Fenway! Funny thing: every professor is given free tickets behind home plate. But they never use it on their students for some reason. You should ask your advisor why they don't like you as much as I like my lab.

In my last year at MSU, I'm considering entering fake maintenance requests, but in the style of Edgar Allan Poe stories. They start out innocently enough, but then turn...sinister... Here's a brief thread...

Not really. Except... For Openness to Experience, there was a small but real signal. People with tattoos that were rated as "wacky" (vs. serious) tended to actually be more open. So... your weirdest tattoo might be the most honest one.

Did people agree in their tattoo-based judgments? ✅ Yes! There was consensus (people tended to see the same personality in the same tattoo)... But... was it accurate? 👇