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This website accompanies the Psychology of Swearing talk held on Thursday 6th October 2022 for the University of Glasgow Psychology Society. Reading list If you would like more information about anything presented in this talk, I recommend the following sources:

Like many, the number of extension requests on my course increased over the last two years. This is not a “OH THOSE BLOODY STUDENTS” post. I don’t blame students for any of the problems we’re seeing now, I blame the pandemic.

Introduction Personality measures Sample context and limitations Trait scores (overall) Facet scores (overall) Agreeableness facets Conscientiousness facets Extraversion facets Negative emotionality facets Open-mindedness facets Individual differences Age Trait scores Facet scores Gender All traits Agreeableness Conscientiousness Extraversion Negative emotionality Open-mindedness Sexual orientation All traits Agreeableness Conscientiousness Extraversion Negative emotionality Open-mindedness Neurodiversity All traits Agreeableness Conscientiousness Extraversion Negative emotionality Open-mindedness Birth order All traits Agreeableness Conscientiousness Extraversion Negative emotionality Open-mindedness Conclusions Introduction At the request of participants, this analysis is a summary of the results of a study conducted on personality and individual differences in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, January - March 2022.

Dear Kathleen, This is your thesis. As interpreted by a nerd. Your thesis has 80613 words in total. Don’t freak out if this is different to something you wrote on an official form, R will count every word in every table and footnote.

This analysis uses the package rtweet to collect tweets containing the #DragRaceUK hashtag - there is a good tutorial here if you want more information. First, load the relevant packages, download the tweets, and clean it up a little.

This is the winning entry to our Drag Racer competition by UofG psychology student Ellie Brownlie. Intro See final section, Beauty fades, data vis is forever!

This website accompanies the Psychology of Swearing talk held on Tuesday 10th November 2020 for the Universit of Glasgow Psychology Society. Reading list If you would like more information about anything presented in this talk, I recommend the following sources:

Last Saturday we were supposed to be in London for the West End production of Sister Act, with Whoopi Goldberg reprising the lead role and Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior.

This week I continued recording my lectures and asynchronous lab videos. As I’ve already said on Twitter, I largely refuse to do any editing - there were a couple of moments where the cat made a noise in the background, the door bell went off, or I stumbled over words and there’s no way I am spending my time editing them out.

The first thing I did this week was to rewrite a lecture on the history of psychology, not because of anything to do with the pivot, but rather following the recent Black Lives Matter protests I realised that I had significant room for improvement in the way I was presenting the history of our field.