Personality and Places

Our interactions with the physical environments around us is shaped by our personality: We seek out places that satisfy our psychological needs. For instance, openness to experience, the tendency to be curious and to seek out new experiences, may drive us to urbanized or cosmopolitan regions, dense in experience diversity. In turn, the physical environment may also shape the behaviours we can engage with and, over time, lead to changes in personality traits. Does living in coastal areas lead to systematic differences in regional personality traits? What are the implications of such regional differences?