The Buzz
The Buzz is a roundup of articles by and for Phenometrix and those associated with psychology and genetics in support of our technology and mission.
Nature vs Nurture: How your genes shape who you are
Identical twins separated at birth give us insights into the interplay between genetic and environmental influences on our behaviour and our traits. These twin studies help scientists like Dr Nancy Segal understand what makes us who we are - and what role our genes...
Your Perception of Self Becomes Blurrier Over Time
Summary: Self-perception becomes blurrier over time, the further away you get from the present, researchers report. Source: Dartmouth College When you look at two objects close to you such as two leaves, it’s easy to tell them apart but when they are farther away from...
Psychology Today – What if You Don’t Like Your Personality?
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — e. e. cummings KEY POINTS You may have gotten negative messages—whether from parents, siblings, peers, or teachers—to eradicate certain aspects of your inborn nature. Your self-protective adaptations to...
Which Personality Traits Can Be Improved Without Personal Motivation?
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change? A growing body of research suggests that personality traits can be changed through intervention. Theorists have speculated that successful...
The Gene-Synthesis Revolution
Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. What could it give us next? More...
Taming the wild west of AI-based hiring
New laws and regulations are aiming to draw some boundaries for the fast-growing but often black-box approach of using AI to hire employees. More...
Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live
The nascent field of geopsychology shows that the Big Five personality traits vary by region. But not all results conform to stereotype. More...
How Do We Learn to Learn?
Cognitive control training that focuses on important factors while ignoring distractions enhances information processing and enables the ability to “learn to learn”. More...
Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning
Syndromic genetic conditions, in aggregate, affect 8% of the population1. Many syndromes have recognizable facial features2 that are highly informative to clinical geneticists3,4,5. Recent studies show that facial analysis technologies measured up to the capabilities...
Researchers produce images of people’s faces from their genomes
The Economist SEP 9TH 2017 CRAIG VENTER, a biologist and boss of Human Longevity, a San Diego-based company that is building the world’s largest genomic database, is something of a rebel. In the late 1990s he declared that the international, publicly funded project to...
What personality are you? How the Myers-Briggs test took over the world
Deemed ‘astrology for businessmen’ for some, lauded as life-saving by others, the personality tests are a ‘springboard’ for people to think about who they are. More...
How AI Could Help You Find Love
Online daters are getting some help in finding their matches thanks to the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to make connections…
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What Will It Take to Change Your Personality?
New research examines whether people can improve their personalities over time. Many people have questions about personality in adulthood and the possibility of changing theirs for the better. Would you say you agree with the view that personality is fixed by the age...
Personality traits and psychiatric disorders linked to specific genomic locations
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has identified six loci or regions of the human genome that are significantly linked to personality traits, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine more...
Genetics play role in character traits related to academic success, study says
Character traits, such as grit or desire to learn, have a heavy hand in academic success and are partially rooted in genetics, according to a psychology study at The University of Texas at Austin. More...
The link between genes, cognitive styles and political orientation
https://www.psypost.org/2016/05/link-genes-cognitive-styles-political-orientation-42929
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