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In the July issue of Personality and Individual Differences, you will find an article I have co-authored with Steven G. Ludeke, Joseph A. Vitriol and Miriam Gensowski. In the paper, titled Personality in a pandemic: Social norms moderate associations between personality and social distancing behaviors, we demonstrate when Big Five personality traits are more likely […]

Most static figures show information in two dimensions (with a horisontal dimension and a vertical dimension). This works really well on the screen as well as on paper. However, once in a while you also see figures presenting figures with a third dimension (3D). It is not necessarily a problem adding a third dimension if […]

176. Governments in countries that experienced SARS in 2003 were quicker to implement social distancing policies to combat COVID-19 in 2020 (Ru et al. 2021) 177. Political parties that suffer electoral setbacks are more likely to change name (Kim and Solt 2017) 178. People underestimate their compliments’ value to others (Boothby and Bohns 2021) 179. […]

In a previous post, I argued that the y-axis can be misleading under certain conditions. One of these conditions is when using a bar graph with a non-zero starting point. In this post I will show that bar graphs can be misleading even when the y-axis is not misleading. In brief, bar graphs do not […]

Climate change is abstract. We do not personally experience climate change in our day-to-day activities (although cimate change is detectable from any single day of weather at global scale, cf. Sippel 2020), and if we are to understand climate change, data – and in particular data visualisation – is crucial. I have recently been reading […]