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

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 …

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Negative Emotionality Reduces Frontal Midline Theta in 106 Recruits

Photoreal illustration of frontal-midline brain activity overlaid on a stylized portrait, conveying personality-brain link in cognitive control.

A 2026 EEG study of 106 Army National Guard recruits found that higher negative emotionality predicted poorer Go/No-Go discrimination (β = −.234, 95% CI −.392 to −.076) and lower frontal midline theta (β = −.149, 95% CI −.290 to −.001). The key result was not a vague personality-brain link: frontal midline theta, not occipital alpha, …

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