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Hey! Our newest episode is out with Nick Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, and Yannick Stephan, experts in personality and health psychology, who talked with Rebekka Weidmann about the importance of considering personality when predicting important health outcomes across the life span.

Lower neuroticism and higher conscientiousness help decrease the risk of conversion from subjective cognitive decline to objective cognitive impairment. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35848026/ 10.3233/JAD-220319

People who have a sense of purpose are likely to experience less loneliness. Arash Emamzadeh explains why. bit.ly/3A0N84X

Higher IQ in adolescence was related to higher openness, lower neuroticism, lower extraversion, lower agreeableness and lower conscientiousness 50 years later. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

See Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology special issue celebrating 50th years of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP). All open access journals.sagepub.com/toc/jcca/53/7-8

Most people report having had at least one memory in which they see themselves from the outside, like watching their life as a movie. Jacob Stern on the phenomenon of third-person memories and what it reveals about our brains: on.theatln.tc/NMDjoRS

Interesting study and commentaries on the higher prices for humans than for pets for the same generic drug in the US. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

See our work on personality change during COVID19. Most changes were seen in young adults (increased in neuroticism and declined in agreeableness and conscientiousness) dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Personality traits have a robust association with average memory performance. Higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness were associated with declines in memory performance only among samples with more than two memory assessments pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36179266/

Excellent piece by Monica Panetto (an Italian reporter), Come siamo cambiati durante la pandemia? Lo rivela uno studio sulla personalità ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/come-s…

It's #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek, so I'm here to remind you that disability comes in all shapes and forms. I'm also here to reflect on how getting an #invisibleillness / becoming disabled is still a whirlwind of an experience despite being diagnosed >2 years ago.

More evidence that purpose in life (meaning) is consistently protective against dementia (meta-analysis N = 214,270). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households produced in 2021, just 2.4 million tons (5 percent) were recycled, new research shows. The findings show that plastic recycling is a “myth,” says the analysis by environmental nonprofit Greenpeace USA. trib.al/hLhzaC5

#Personality traits did not moderate the effectiveness of physical and cognitive training interventions with the possible exception of the CERAD global measure of cognition doi.org/10.1016/j.paid…

Loneliness and Risk of Parkinson Disease jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Two large prospective studies found consistent evidence that purpose in life has a small but accelerating decline during the early stages of cognitive impairment. Purpose in Life Before and After Onset of Cognitive Impairment jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Caregivers observe large changes in personality with dementia. In this study, we show similar declines in purpose in life, life satisfaction, happiness, belonging, social connection, and increases in loneliness... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Meaning in life" is a critical component of psychological well-being; Now Antonio Terracciano & colleagues use UK Biobank data & find that meaning in life is associated with lower risk of incident #Parkinsons over 5 years I'm off to find me so meaning in life! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢New in GeroScience by Springer Nature Recent study by Antonio Terracciano found that higher purpose in life is associated with a lower risk of slow walking speed and a lower risk of developing slow walking speed over time. ⬇ link.springer.com/article/10.100… #Purpose #Gaitspeed #Walking #aging