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Do you like to read? Would you like some great book recommendations? Then check out Shepherd.com: here are my book recommendations, and there are recommendations by other book authors as well. Ha...

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The recently published World Economic Forum report on global travel and tourism competitiveness contains a wealth of data that is significant beyond just tourism. Several data sets pertain to he...

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Can a few simple accents become the center of a controversy that occupy headlines? In Catalonia, yes. Catalan is the language of this northeast Spain region, whose capital is Barcelona. The Cata...

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Honesty, like other personality traits, is notoriously difficult to test, let alone map. A rather ingenious new study attempted to measure honesty in an unusual way. Instead of using questionnai...

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As discussed in earlier posts, abstract concepts such as personality or happiness can be mapped. A few years ago, geographers from Kansas State University tried to map the spatial distribution o...

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A recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Vermont, once again looked into the question of where happy people live. Previous studies on the geography of personality, discussed...

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While research on the geography of personality, such as the 2008 study by Rentfrow and colleagues, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science and described in the previous post, provides...

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When I moved from upstate New York to California some five years ago, the culture shock was almost as significant as when I had moved from Russia to Israel, then to Canada, then to the UK, then ...

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As promised in an earlier post, I am presenting here an informal response to the article, published recently in Genome Biology and Evolution by Paul Wexler, Eran Elhaik and colleagues (henceforth...

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A recent question from a student about just how religious Russians really are has sent me to look for statistics on this issue. As sociologists of religion know, it is not easy to measure religi...

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