Neurotic Women More Likely to Blog

A survey conducted by Rosanna Guadagno at the University of Alabama reveals that neurotic women are more likely to blog:

This is consistent with work on internet usage that also found an association with neurotic personality types, but only among women. The researchers surmised that nervous women may blog to “assuage loneliness or in an attempt to reach out and form social connections with others.”

The survey was conducted among 300 students at the university. For more, read the BPS Research Digest post, found via Guy Kawasaki’s tweet.

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Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.

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