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Big Five Personality Traits and Sexual Fantasies in 5,225 Adults

by GLOOM

Sexual fantasies are not distributed randomly, but the pattern is subtler than popular personality stereotypes imply. In 5,225 adults, conscientiousness and agreeableness tracked lower fantasy frequency, while negative emotionality—especially the depression facet—tracked higher fantasy frequency across multiple fantasy domains.1 Research Highlights 5,225-person sample: Cannoot et al. analyzed adults with mean age 58.30 years; 56.5% were …

Stress Internalization Predicts Memory Decline in Older Chinese Americans

by GLOOM

Editorial card showing an older Chinese American adult and a memory-decline trajectory, illustrating the PINE cohort finding that stress internalization predicts cognitive decline.

A 2025 longitudinal analysis of 1,528 older Chinese Americans by Chen et al. in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease says something more specific than “stress causes Alzheimer’s”: it isn’t the count of stressors that tracks memory decline — it’s a latent trait the authors call stress internalization, a bundle of high perceived stress, …

Long-Term Unemployment Changes Personality Traits

by GLOOM

In the United States, there are an estimated 18 million people that are unemployed. Much of this is due to economic changes that have occurred within the past decade. In the year 1996, there were an estimated 750,000 households living on less than $2 per day (prior to receiving government benefits). As of the year …