Cloudfindings

Birds of a Feather Flock Together: The Overlap and Structure of Psychiatric Disorders, Personality, and Culture: Part 1 - Hip Hop and Country Music Hip Hop & Rap The culture associated with hip hop and rap music, as demonstrated in common lyrical themes, and the characteristics of its artists and listeners is broadly associated with traits that mark fast life history strategies, and mental disorders associated with fast life history strategies. Most studies on music genre preferences and personality group together hip hop with electronic and dance preferences via factor analysis (e.g., Rentfrow & Gosling 2003), the covariance between preferences for hip hop and electronic likely reflects aesthetic preferences (i.e., how it sounds) rather than personal meaning, as the personality correlates of hip hop preference are much different than the correlates of electronic music preference when looked at separately (Zweigenhaft 2008). However, the limited data available still suggests a ...

Rationality as a Combination of Cognitive Empathy and Intelligence, and Low Disgust Cognitive empathy has been seen as a trait that confers conformity and is opposed to rationality to a degree (e.g., Crespi & Badcock 2008). This assumption comes from multiple areas, but largely from the observation that more extraverted and sociable people are more conforming, which has inaccurately been conflated with cognitive empathy. Social skills have differing correlates from cognitive empathy (Cloudfindings 2024b), and do not predict better understanding of human variation. I have previously argued that cognitive empathy is associated with aspects of higher rationality, such as non-conformity and less moral absolutism (Cloudfindings 2023a)(Cloudfindings 2024a) and these hypotheses were supported by a study I conducted (Cloudfindings 2024b). Andersen (2022) put forth similar hypotheses suggesting cognitive empathy (in opposition to autistic traits) is associated with less conformist worldview...

The Structure of Political Orientations and Underlying Psychological Causes: Part 1 - Statistical Extraction of a Psycho-Political Compass This study tests the hypotheses outlined in Cloudfindings (2024). An online survey (n=60) was conducted to test these hypotheses, using PsyToolkit (Stoet 2010, 2017). The hypotheses were supported by the data. Further discussion will be included in future posts. Variables Scales by other authors Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS): Measures the concept of social intelligence, with three factors - social information processing, social skills, and social awareness. (Silvera et al. 2021) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI): Measures four factors of empathy, the empathic concern subscale being used in this study to measure emotional empathy. (Davis 1980) Levenson Self Report Psychopathy (LSRP): Measures two factors of psychopathy, primary and secondary. (Levenson et al. 1995) Ritvo Autism-Asperger Diagnostic Scale (RAADS-14): A short screening meas...