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   Research Finds Birth Season May Influence Personality    
      
   By Janice Wood    
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   Research Finds Birth Season May Influence Personality    
      
   New research has found that people's personalities tend to vary depending on   
   the season in which they were born.    
      
   That may be why astrological signs developed as a useful system for   
   remembering these patterns, according to an analysis by Mark Hamilton, Ph.D.,   
   a social scientist in the Communication Department at the University of   
   Connecticut.    
      
   These seasonal effects may not be clear in individuals, but can be discerned   
   through averaging personality traits across large groups of people born at the   
   same time of year, he notes in his analysis, which was published in   
   Comprehensive Psychology.    
      
   According to Hamilton, psychologists have known that certain personality   
   traits tend to be associated with certain birth months.    
      
   For example, people born in January and February tend to be more creative, and   
   have a higher chance of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, than people born   
   at any other time of year, he said. Meanwhile, people born in odd-numbered   
   months tend to be more    
   extroverted than those born in even-numbered months.    
      
   Traditional Western astrology uses elements (water, earth, air, and fire),   
   sign duality (bright/dark) and sign qualities (cardinal, mutable, and fixed)   
   to describe and categorize these effects. It considers late December through   
   early March as a "wet"    
   time of year, and connects wetness with creativity, for example, Hamilton   
   explained. "Fixed" signs are said to be more stubborn and persistent than   
   others.    
      
   For his analysis, Hamilton looked at a data set of 300 celebrities from the   
   fields of politics, science, public service, literature, the arts, and sports.   
   He found that celebrities' birth dates tended to cluster at certain times of   
   the year. "Wet" signs    
   were associated with more celebrities, as were signs classified as "bright"   
   and "fixed."   
      
   "Psychologists want to dismiss these astrological correlations, but there are   
   seasonality effects that we have yet to explain," he said.    
      
   He adds that he's not arguing that heavenly bodies are the true source of   
   these effects. Rather, he says, astrological signs are just tools that help   
   people remember the timing and patterns of nature.    
      
   Hamilton is now working with other researchers on an analysis of 85,000   
   celebrities dating from 3,000 B.C.E to the present era. He says that the   
   seasonality effect on celebrity appears to hold true even in this large data   
   set stretching across millennia    
   and cultures.    
      
   Source: University of Connecticut    
      
      
   http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/05/16/research-finds-birth-sea   
   on-may-influence-personality/84676.htm   
      
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