Introduction

Fritz Gutt's Elisabeta Militaru and Marcos Yokela talk with Rebecca Weitmann about geography and personality. Fritz: Geographical Psychology was born in 2008 when Jason Renfel, Sam Gosling and Jeff Potter published an article mapping personality across the United States. To do it right, you need heaps and heaps of data - every state needs to have more than a handful of residents there. It really took the age of big data and the internet in psychological research to get us there.