Ted Schwaba

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

12/12 Joint work with @leandroscarvalho.bsky.social, @silviabarcelos.bsky.social, Stephen Dorn, Titus Galama, Catharina Hartman, Qiongshi Lu, and Dilnoza Muslimova Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.06088

6/12 Result 1: greater genetic propensity toward emotional stability raises earnings. A 1-SD higher PGI increases annual earnings by €1,420, or 3.3% of the sample average. The effects of the other four traits are smaller and not statistically significant

The complexity of group interactions seems to overrule the consistency of individual behavior to create group-level developmental patterns that are highly unpredictable over longer timescales.

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits?

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

IBG at CU Boulder is hiring 2-3 tenure-track faculty (junior or senior) in statistical genetics, twin/family designs, and computational work. A chance to help shape IBG for decades. Starts fall 2027. More info: colorado.edu/ibg/. Apply by Oct 15. Please repost!

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

Our new work exploring associations between childhood thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and the big 5 personality PGIs is now preprinted! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hi, I'd like to apply for the lifetime achievement award. Although my chronological age would seemingly render me ineligible, my biological age? Firmly in the eligibility window. How old do I feel (subjective age)? I'm at death's door. Thank you for your consideration

I’m recruiting a PhD student to come work with me in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University! Application cycle: 2027-2028 Application deadline: December 1 Application details & admissions: artsci.tamu.edu/psychologica... Lab website: www.wrightpersonalitylab.com

Out today with @tedmond.bsky.social, our research briefing summarizing key takeaways from our Big Five GWAS! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share new work with @jeremyfreese.bsky.social. We investigate whether the genetic risk of depression predicts how people are evaluated in social interactions. People with higher depression PGI were perceived as less competent (cognitively, physically and socially). doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

Some coverage of our Big Five GWAS! (with quotes by @tuckerdrob.bsky.social) After reading the comments section I am now in favor of compulsory psychometrics education.

Our big Big Five GWAS, out today! Personality Genomics is extremely hot in 2026.

🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

Something worth noticing is that the letter in support of the suspension of Cofnas from Ghent University has 353 signatures from G(h)ent Conversely, the letter against the suspension has a grand total of 14 signatures from G(h)ent

🚨 1. Can changed trial characteristics explain fluoxetine's loss of efficacy for pediatric depression? New paper by @floriannaudet.bsky.social @richlyus.bsky.social and me is out. It is a secondary meta-regression on an already existing meta-analysis. Why was this important? ->

I'm not smart enough to figure out what is wrong with this study, but I am smart enough to know that popular streaming album releases increasing traffic fatalities by 15% in one day is an implausibly large effect.

“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

Excited to share that our paper with @mhennecke.bsky.social was published yesterday!   We asked: How well do others really know our self-control? Turns out, surprisingly well - but it depends on what they’re judging, the life domain, and how close they are to us. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

Can one minute daily audio recordings replace long symptom surveys? Very excited about our new paper addressing this question! @aidangcw.bsky.social @vizecolin.bsky.social et al. Short 🧵 below...

New meta by @peterhaehner.bsky.social et al (I'm a little middle author) on individual differences in personality change across the lifespan (229 studies, N = 230k) 10.1037/bul0000525 Cool finding (imo): For all Big Five, variance in change is greatest in youth, declining through young adulthood!

🆕 New pre-print! osf.io/preprints/ps... Are you satisfied with your life because you are satisfied with your friends, health, job, etc.? Or is it actually the other way around: are some people generally satisfied with their life and, because of this, satisfied with their friends, health, job, etc.?

Read my interview with @vox.com about #Gossip with our neighbors. The funny part is that I gossiped about this piece *with* my neighbors too 👂

New Preprint 📖 with @rogierk.bsky.social on 🔥 Does wildfire pollution affect cognitive and brain development? We merged data sources to answer this question in ~9000 children! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

What happens when war breaks out in the middle of a survey? On Feb 28, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, as our global research team was conducting fieldwork. In several countries, views of the national economic situation worsened throughout our survey period.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... THIS IS COOL

astounding it wasn't 9-0 on birthright citizenship. The constitution could not be clearer!

New JPSP registered report + coordinated data analysis led by Tiko Yoneda: identical models across 11 aging cohorts (N=175,070; 18 countries). Loneliness—not simply social isolation—was more robustly associated with cognitive impairment and mortality risk psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

The main point is that decisions about timescale are substantive theoretical commitments rather than methodological details, and they determine what kinds of change a study can detect and what inferences it can support. But there are a few central messages that flesh this out... 2/

“The “strongest risk factor” is not the form most related to harm. It is the form least redundant with whatever else is in the model.”

Anyways, if you are at BGA, come to the Family Methods section this afternoon You'll hear about a project on assortative mating, still missing heritability, and non-additivity with @hfsunde.bsky.social @sbruins.bsky.social @profsimonfisher.bsky.social and other stellar bskyless co-authors

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm