In one study, he and colleagues found that genetics played a significant role in whether a person experiences difficult life events, like the death of a spouse, unemployment and being a victim of crime.
We just finished a studyin which we asked users to share examples of how social media experiences (with Facebook being the dominant medium) had affected real world relationships.
The BBC spoke to two Dominican women in New York as well as the professors behind a 20-year study into the immigrant experiences of different generations.
People who rate high in openness to new experiencesin personality tests also may be more distractible and curious, according to a 2010 studyin Creativity Research Journal.