Month: September 2020

People’s life goals relate to their personality type

A new study suggests that for the most part, people formulate goals consistent with their personality traits. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the Success of Society. […]

Published on September 16, 2020

The unintended consequence of becoming empathetic

Many people want to become more empathetic. But, these changes in personality may also lead to changes in political ideologies. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in pioneering Self-Enhancement Science for the […]

Published on September 16, 2020

Adding Types, But Not Tokens, Affects Property Induction

Abstract The extent to which we generalize a novel property from a sample of familiar instances to novel instances depends on the sample composition. Previous property induction experiments have only used samples consisting of novel types (unique entities). Because real‐world evidence samples often contain redundant tokens (repetitions of the same entity), we studied the effects […]

Published on September 16, 2020