Ted Schwaba
psych professor, MSU. personality and environments and genes and the tangle all between! Also music opinions! tedmond.net
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- 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!"
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaSPSP 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!! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- 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.
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- Exciting news! Today marks the start of the podcast Born and Raised - produced by the ESSGN. In this very first episode, our hosts have visited @dr-appie.bsky.social in his office at the AUMC. Shocking revelations ensue! Find it on essgn.podbean.com or on the podcast platform of your choice.
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaWith 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...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaThe 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/
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaA 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...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaGabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaBringing Cory Doctorow to the Amazon ces exhibit is like summoning Bahamut in FF7 against a single enemy with 1 hp
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- 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.
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaRounding 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?
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaEver 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/...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaI wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
- Reposted by Ted Schwaba1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaWant to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaThis is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you"
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- www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... Whoever was forced to write this at the CDC doesn't know a thing about science or making sense of evidence. How frustrating and sad.
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaWe've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study. New results, in 3 figures: 🧵 1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/
- Opinion: The Smashing Pumpkins are currently the most influential rock band in the world -- and maybe the most underrated (in that people think they were good, but they were *GREAT*)
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaAnother reminder that if you got students who wanna do a social psych PhD focusing on identities (specifically Asian, Latine, MENA Americans), I’m recruiting! I’m hustling hard here so pls send people my way 😅 see website for details www.pbandjlab.com
- Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans
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- came across a fun article on personality in C. Elegans "Even when they are genetically identical and reared in the same environment, different individuals exhibit behavioral differences that are stable over long periods" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaThe latest podcast is with psychologist and openness to experiences expert Ted Schwaba, who walks me through this mysterious, awe-inspiring (literally) personality trait substack.com/home/post/p-...
- What's the social psych term for "a group that one feels compelled to sort a person into?" Like, whenever I meet a person, my brain automatically tries to answer "what is their gender?" -- it's very hard for me to consider a person sans gender.
- Out now at PSPR: our love letter to the personality trait of Openness! Amber Thalmayer and I identify and (try to) explain the many ways that openness/intellect is the weirdest & WEIRDest of the Big Five. (Big improvements over the old preprint! thx reviewers) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBGXT...
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- Reposted by Ted Schwaba1/ 🚨New paper in Nature Genetics Genetic factors are associated with the educational fields people study, from arts to engineering. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQ: www.thehastingscenter.org/genomic-find...
- On my calendar today I have scheduled "zoom GWAS" for 1pm. Current me has no idea what this refers to, there's no zoom link, no other guests, nothing in my last month of emails provides a clue. SO I'm just going to anxiously await an email at 1:05pm that says "where are you?" SORRY to whomever!
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaA reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!
- ✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaInterdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.... Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaNew release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaHas conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014? A question that made us blog again: Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?* floggingpvalues.blog/2025/10/22/h...
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaNew from @ent3c.bsky.social in The Atlantic -- 7 years (!) after Charles Murray made a bet with us that we'd "understand IQ genetically" by 2025, Eric describes how far we still are--and might always be--from that goal www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
- I was wondering why this photo felt familiar and then I realized my profile pic is just me cosplaying as this flower
- Trump's "university compact" is blatantly transphobic and deeply evil stuff. Any university that agrees to this kneels to fascism.
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- If you're teaching about lifespan personality development, and you want to include Bleidorn + colleagues (2022) meta-analysis, I made some prettier plots than the ones in our paper. (Y axis is cohen's d) (Alternately, if you've never read our paper, check out these plots!)
- 2015: the CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for stable traits, use the RI-CLPM! 2025: the RI-CLPM is misspecified, it doesn't account for linear decay over time, use the ARTS! (But actually, given how stable everything is, maybe just don't estimate cross-lagged models in adults)
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- Reposted by Ted SchwabaReport: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaThe largest study on late life virginity, based on >400k individuals, out now in @pnas.org Open access link: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Shoutout to shared first author @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social ❤️ Thread below 👇🏽
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaI wrote a little note on awards for diversity and science: mwkraus.medium.com/a-note-on-aw...
- Reposted by Ted SchwabaProud to share our new @nber working paper on how genetics shape the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in the Netherlands. 🧵(1/8) www.nber.org/papers/w34208
