Wyomingites come up short in study of personality traits

Wyoming residents are closed-minded, disagreeable and not very conscientious compared to people in nearly every other state, according to a new study of the personalities of more than 600,000 people nationwide.

While that sounds like Wyomingites are plain surly, at least they’re not very neurotic.

Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pps/3_5_inpress/Rentfrow.pdf

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