Ted Schwaba

Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?

The ARP DEI Committee warmly invites you to join us for a casual happy hour during SPSP in Chicago later this month. This is a chance to connect with like-minded personality peers amongst the sea of social scientists @spspnews.bsky.social!

After double-checking with the ghost of Kurt Lewin, the scorecard is now:
Social: r = .40
Personality: r = .40

Tally one for personality on the "person situation debate scoreboard" that the psychologists in the Epstein files are pretty uniformly high on dominance, narcissism, need for admiration. Haven't come across a single "Oh, HIM? Never would have guessed!"

Chicago Restaurant Recs Chicago Restaurant Recommendations from Jin Goh and Lydia Emery Chicago has an amazing food scene. You can get a great meal in pretty much any neighborhood, all of which have unique culture, food, an...

SPSP is just around the corner and in our backyard of Chicago! @lydiaemery.bsky.social and I love the Chicago food scene, and we've put together a list of places we like. We hope this will help you enjoy and explore Chicago!! See y'all soon!!

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Ah -- thank you so much! It's so straightforward!!

Anyone know a simple, free static QR code generator? I'm struggling to wade through a slush of freemium generators with way more options than necessary. I just want to hardcode a URL into the pattern.

Replying to Brent on cross lagged panel models Last week, Brent Roberts blogged on “The Inconceivability of the CLPM and RI-CLPM”.

Replying to @bwroberts.bsky.social on cross-lagged panel models

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Huge congrats, and also, how poetic!

absolutely smashing that play button

Me and @aysuo.bsky.social did a thing. Give it a listen!

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

PIG-IE Reading List The Personality Interest Group—Including Espresso Reading List

The Personality Interest Group Including Espresso journal club (PIG-IE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now has a public reading schedule: pig-ie-reading-vote.lovable.app/schedule. 1/

Personality Genomics Recent research advances have precipitated the era of personality genomics: the study of how variation in human DNA sequence predicts individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, fee...

A very comprehensive review of the genetics of personlity led by @tedmond.bsky.social This is a great onramp for those who haven't checked into psychiatric genetics or bahviour genetics in a while. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

and @tuckerdrob.bsky.social !

Michel, being into prime number theory fits your personality so perfectly

holy guacamole

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
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Bringing Cory Doctorow to the Amazon ces exhibit is like summoning Bahamut in FF7 against a single enemy with 1 hp

oooooo the analogy of Life Difficulty Modes could go a long way in conveying these concepts to gamers... + the implicit understanding that playing the game on a harder difficulty is inherently cooler and more praiseworthy would do some background work to dispel stigma

Non-nutritive Sweeteners in Weight Management and Chronic Disease: a review To critically review findings from recent studies evaluating effects of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) on metabolism, weight, and obesity-related chronic diseases. Biologic mechanisms that may explain NNS effects will also be addressed. We conducted ...

Observational shows associations with bad stuff. RCTs, a little weight loss, no bad stuff.

Since researchers can't find obvious problems, more recent studies have focused on the microbiome, where all bad ideas go to not die. That's a topic for another day.
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Here we go again with using observational data when it suits them.

This is particularly important here, because there’s a huge difference between observational data & trials on artificial sweeteners.

Explanation of how lizards play rock-paper-scissors

Here's a figure from the lead author of the new study that lays out the rules of the game.

Wrote up my annual list of top albums! One of my favorite little winter break traditions.

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Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.

Wrote up my annual list of top albums! One of my favorite little winter break traditions.

tedmond.net/teds-top-5-a...

Would love to hear your thoughts / your faves from this year.

"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."

screenshot of tweet saying "who the fuck is playing pokemon in antarctica" with a trade partner in antarctica

photo of me in antarctica playing my switch. adelie penguins are in the background

photo of me in antarctica playing my switch, with pokemon legends z-a. adelie penguins are in the background.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Rounding out 2025 with a new publication in Psychological Science! @psychscience.bsky.social

What psychological factor predicts having better physical health, greater happiness, being stereotyped positively, and voting conservatively?

Unity and Diversity of NEO-PI Personality Profiles of 162 Phenotypes - Kerli Ilves, Yueh en Wang, Kenn Konstabel, Ants Adamson, Kersten Kõrge, Aire Raidvee, Alain Dagher, René Mõttus, Uku Vainik, 2025 For over 30 years, detailed personality-phenotype association profiles based on the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) have been published, yet the phenotype pr...

Ever wondered whether we could map personality profiles as we do with genetic or brain data? We applied a similar method to explore similarities and differences of NEO PI profiles in our fresh-out paper. Here’s what we found 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Eeesh. I'm not sure when this was written, but there's sure a stark contrast between his eugenic fantasy and the 2025 reality of a few silicon valley weirdos forking over for a low-resolution scry of the likelihood their kid is a bit smarter and at risk for thought disorders. Not so "enhanced", imo!