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From the abstract > ...the personality of infected men showed lower superego strength (rule consciousness) and higher vigilance. Thus, the men were more likely
by claytonjy 5y ago
From the abstract
> ...the personality of infected men showed lower superego strength (rule consciousness) and higher vigilance. Thus, the men were more likely to disregard rules and were more expedient, suspicious, jealous, and dogmatic. The personality of infected women, by contrast, showed higher warmth and higher superego strength, suggesting that they were more warm hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic. Both men and women had significantly higher apprehension compared with the uninfected controls.
I don't have the expertise to judge the quality of this study, but that's a fascinating conclusion
- d0mine 5y agoIt reads like a horoscope and it is worth as much.
- skinkestek 5y agoToxoplasma research is pretty established and the conclusions above matches fairly well what I learned 20 years ago.
- robbedpeter 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperament_and_Character_Inventory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperament_and_Character_Inve... It's based on yet another psychological framework, with the same underlying flaws in methodology that plague the MB model, which the "big 5" model tries to correct for with better statistics. Any framework can have value, and it's unnecessary (and incurious) to dismiss this study as a horoscope. The findings are consistent with most other literature on toxoplasmosis.
- Jensson 5y agoCould be that men and women have different responses to disease burden. Makes sense that men increase risky behaviour to make the most out of the last days of his life, women try to fit in even more than before to not get kicked out of the group and thus maximize chance of survival. Toxoplasmosis might make the body think it is dying and thus induce this forever even though it isn't dying.