Armed w Sci-Hub, I sifted 100s of obscure papers on Inuit (who share Siberian ancestry w EA) & polar workers🥶. I found despite EA psych/personality being on an extreme end of global spectrum, Inuit & successful polar staff have the same psych profile, personality, & worldviews - ThreadSky

arcticinstincts.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Armed w Sci-Hub, I sifted 100s of obscure papers on Inuit (who share Siberian ancestry w EA) & polar workers🥶. I found despite EA psych/personality being on an extreme end of global spectrum, Inuit & successful polar staff have the same psych profile, personality, & worldviews

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arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

EAs & Inuit share traits of notably high emotional suppression, ingroup harmony & unassertiveness, indirectness, introversion, perseverance, self-consciousness, social sensitivity, risk aversion, visuospatial IQ, & worldviews. But does the Arctic cause this in polar workers? ❄️

arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

Polar psychologists found the same traits to be adaptive & linked to success, & opposite traits to failure. The results are so consistent they've been refined into polar personnel selection criteria used in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇿🇩🇰🇳🇴 polar programs- mirroring ancient natural selection for traits

arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thus Arcticism is a parsimonious theory for paleo-origins of general EA psych, before adding on later Holocene individualism effects of pastoralism🦌 on Mongols/Tibetans, & collectivism effects of agriculture🌾 on Han Chinese, Japanese, Koreans- leading to further local variation

arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

Confucianism revived preexisting Zhou dynasty values, can't act as sudden cause of EA personality. 🍚Rice farming induces collectivism but can't extend to North China, Mongolia, Tibet, Manchuria, Inuit

Indian/N.Italian/Iranian/Malay rice farmers general psych differs from EA

arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

Novel testable predictions- EAs will tolerate close quarters group confinement (igloos/tents) better & have more Arcticist traits vs other ancestry ppl, controlled for pastoralism: Mongols vs Cossacks, Berbers, Somalis- & rice farming: South🇨🇳/🇯🇵/🇰🇷 vs Indians, Malays, N.Italians.

arcticinstincts.bsky.social•5 days ago

It already has successful predictions-

In Singapore, ethnic Chinese have only 1/6th the rate of claustrophobia vs Malays & Indians, despite all w same national upbringing/rice farm ancestry. 🌾

EA polar expeditioners have higher endurance, motivation, psych stability than N.American ones ⛷️

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