Estimated historical distribution of grassland communities of the Southern Great Plains

Reese, Gordon C.; Manier, Daniel J.; Carr, Natasha B.; Callan, Ramana; Leinwand, Ian I.F.; Assal, Timothy J.; Burris, Lucy; Ignizio, Drew A.

doi:10.3133/ofr20161184

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“…Cultivated land ranked 6th in its relative importance in predicting openness, supporting the exploratory results emerging from the multilevel models. Next, we found a negative association between openness to experience and grassland (r = −.016), a category that captures prairies, primarily (Reese et al, 2016), yet random forest models positioned grassland low in its importance (24th). We did not identify consistent associations between openness to experience and the remaining landcover categories (shrub, bare land, glaciers, and permanent snow).…”

Section: Openness To Experiencementioning

confidence: 78%

The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality

Militaru

Serapio-García

Ebert

et al. 2023

Journal of Personality

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ObjectivePersonality traits cluster across countries, regions, cities, and neighborhoods. What drives the formation of these clusters? Ecological theory suggests that physical locations shape humans' patterns of behaviors and psychological characteristics. Based on this theory, we examined whether and how differential land‐cover relates to individual personality.MethodWe followed a preregistered three‐pronged analysis approach to investigate the associations between personality (N = 2,690,878) and land‐cover across the United States. We used eleven land‐cover categories to classify landscapes and tested their association with personality against broad physical and socioeconomic factors.ResultsUrban areas were positively associated with openness to experience and negatively associated with conscientiousness. Coastal areas were positively associated with openness to experience and neuroticism but negatively associated with agreeableness and conscientiousness. Cultivated areas were negatively associated with openness. Landscapes at the periphery of human activity, such as shrubs, bare lands, or permanent snows, were not reliably associated with personality traits.ConclusionsBivariate correlations, multilevel, and random forest models uncovered robust associations between landscapes and personality traits. These findings align with ecological theory suggesting that an individual's environment contributes to their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

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Section: Openness To Experiencementioning

confidence: 78%