In his recent study, "Personality Characteristics of BASE Jumpers" in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, he writes that extreme athletes with lower levels of circulating dopamine "may be in a state of under arousal, which may in turn contribute to engagement in risk-taking sports".
In that contest, he would primarily be drawing contrasts based on electability, personality, recent accomplishments and trustworthiness, rather than trying to establish a radically different ideological brand.
The most recent study of personality and longevity was conducted among a group of 660 people over 50 in Oxford, Ohio, who, in 1975, had answered questions having to do with, among other things, their attitudes about aging.
(Incidentally, he's auctioning off the only piece of Graveyard Book art he's put up for sale for Haitian relief at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180457358183 ht_500wt_1158 ) [Comment From N.E. Stern]: For both/either: As journalists, what do you think is the most difficult aspect of capturing a story or, in the case of this recent piece, a personality?
In a recent paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the psychologists Paul Conway of the University of Western Ontario and Johanna Peetz of Carleton University showed that when we think of a past deed with an abstract mind-set — say, by focusing on one that occurred in the distant past — we demonstrate moral consistency.
(For overviews of recent studies on personality traits of creative scientists, see Feist 1999, 2006: chapter 5).
In an article that we recent published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, we found that liberals were now the ones calling for obedience.
And those who become more open to new experiences are more likely to be satisfied with their lives, found another recent study about personality.
A recent paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Michael MacKenzie, Kathleen Vohs, and Roy Baumeister suggests that people's beliefs in free will may influence the perception of cost, which may in turn affect the feeling of gratitude.
