Anu Realo
@arealo.bsky.social
Personality and cross-cultural psychologist
Professor at Warwick, Tallinn, and Tartu
Balances life between 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇪, enjoying the best of both worlds—most of the time
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/arealo/area
Professor at Warwick, Tallinn, and Tartu
Balances life between 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇪, enjoying the best of both worlds—most of the time
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/arealo/area
Just a gentle reminder that relationships play a bigger role in our well-being than we often think 😍
It’s great to see this study published in JoP, thanks to the work of good friends and colleagues from Bielefeld, Greifswald, and @warwickpsych.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It’s great to see this study published in JoP, thanks to the work of good friends and colleagues from Bielefeld, Greifswald, and @warwickpsych.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany
Objective As social norms and relationship dynamics evolve, it is important to examine how transitions from singlehood to partnership, cohabitation, and marriage relate to well-being. Method Using...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Just a gentle reminder that relationships play a bigger role in our well-being than we often think 😍
It’s great to see this study published in JoP, thanks to the work of good friends and colleagues from Bielefeld, Greifswald, and @warwickpsych.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It’s great to see this study published in JoP, thanks to the work of good friends and colleagues from Bielefeld, Greifswald, and @warwickpsych.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To all my fellow coffee lovers out there — yes, it makes you happier, especially in the morning!
Our new paper with Justin Hachenberger, Yu-Mei Li, & Sakari Lemola just out in Scientific Reports, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
Our new paper with Justin Hachenberger, Yu-Mei Li, & Sakari Lemola just out in Scientific Reports, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
To all my fellow coffee lovers out there — yes, it makes you happier, especially in the morning!
Our new paper with Justin Hachenberger, Yu-Mei Li, & Sakari Lemola just out in Scientific Reports, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
Our new paper with Justin Hachenberger, Yu-Mei Li, & Sakari Lemola just out in Scientific Reports, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
Hot off the press! Our new open access paper with @serkandeveci.bsky.social validates brief tools for assessing employee well-being at work, particularly in multinational corporate settings 🌎
📄 Just out in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (4 August 2025)
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
📄 Just out in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (4 August 2025)
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hot off the press! Our new open access paper with @serkandeveci.bsky.social validates brief tools for assessing employee well-being at work, particularly in multinational corporate settings 🌎
📄 Just out in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (4 August 2025)
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
📄 Just out in Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (4 August 2025)
@warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Personality GWAS finally done well! Massive worldwide collaboration, including @estbiobank.bsky.social personality team: @renemottus.bsky.social @arealo.bsky.social @urmovosa.bsky.social.
Special guest star
@kerliilv.bsky.social who ran the causal models between personality and health!
Special guest star
@kerliilv.bsky.social who ran the causal models between personality and health!
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Personality GWAS finally done well! Massive worldwide collaboration, including @estbiobank.bsky.social personality team: @renemottus.bsky.social @arealo.bsky.social @urmovosa.bsky.social.
Special guest star
@kerliilv.bsky.social who ran the causal models between personality and health!
Special guest star
@kerliilv.bsky.social who ran the causal models between personality and health!
Cognitive slowness and disjointedness that often come with aging might be better seen as a symptom of a brain full of 'cluttered' wisdom rather than a sign of decline.
Thanks so much @thomhills.bsky.social at @warwickpsych.bsky.social for giving us all some hope that it's not all lost as we age! 😊
Thanks so much @thomhills.bsky.social at @warwickpsych.bsky.social for giving us all some hope that it's not all lost as we age! 😊
April 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Cognitive slowness and disjointedness that often come with aging might be better seen as a symptom of a brain full of 'cluttered' wisdom rather than a sign of decline.
Thanks so much @thomhills.bsky.social at @warwickpsych.bsky.social for giving us all some hope that it's not all lost as we age! 😊
Thanks so much @thomhills.bsky.social at @warwickpsych.bsky.social for giving us all some hope that it's not all lost as we age! 😊
Not sure how I feel about this, or the Swedes
March 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Not sure how I feel about this, or the Swedes
📣Please share the word!
We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata!
Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏
We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata!
Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏
March 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📣Please share the word!
We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata!
Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏
We’re recruiting 4 fully funded PhD students and 3 postdocs—a unique opportunity to join our @sustainera.bsky.social interdisciplinary research team led by @arealo.bsky.social and Kai Pata!
Apply by 16th April and be part of shaping a more sustainable future 🌏
When it comes to well-being, having kids clearly pays off later in life - @ess-survey.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
When it comes to well-being, having kids clearly pays off later in life - @ess-survey.bsky.social
Life sure is a risky business
February 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Life sure is a risky business
Population projections for Scandinavia and the Baltics for 2100, with two scenarios: one with migration and one without. Among EU countries, only Latvia and Lithuania (as well as Romania) would see little impact from closed borders, as they have experienced a net outflow of people
February 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Population projections for Scandinavia and the Baltics for 2100, with two scenarios: one with migration and one without. Among EU countries, only Latvia and Lithuania (as well as Romania) would see little impact from closed borders, as they have experienced a net outflow of people
Estonia in 2025 vs 1937: Still interesting, but no longer inexpensive
February 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Estonia in 2025 vs 1937: Still interesting, but no longer inexpensive
Tartu—kõigi maade neurootikud ühinege
February 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tartu—kõigi maade neurootikud ühinege
It actually works just as well in Estonian too
January 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It actually works just as well in Estonian too
The statistics in the youngest age groups are staggering
January 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The statistics in the youngest age groups are staggering
Even calling it a 'historic disaster' might be something of an understatement
January 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Even calling it a 'historic disaster' might be something of an understatement
Eesti konteksti tõlgituna: Arnold Sinisalu otsib Urmas Viilmaale mantlipärijat
December 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Eesti konteksti tõlgituna: Arnold Sinisalu otsib Urmas Viilmaale mantlipärijat
📣It's official now! I’m both excited and a little apprehensive about this amazing opportunity and challenge. The workload will be split 50-50 between Warwick and Tallinn, so I’ll be spending a bit more time in Estonia than I have over the past ten years.
www.tlu.ee/en/hti/news/...
www.tlu.ee/en/hti/news/...
December 10, 2024 at 8:44 PM
📣It's official now! I’m both excited and a little apprehensive about this amazing opportunity and challenge. The workload will be split 50-50 between Warwick and Tallinn, so I’ll be spending a bit more time in Estonia than I have over the past ten years.
www.tlu.ee/en/hti/news/...
www.tlu.ee/en/hti/news/...
Kakistocracy [the rule of the worst]—will add this to my vocab!
December 8, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Kakistocracy [the rule of the worst]—will add this to my vocab!
Birds without borders
December 5, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Birds without borders
This is as monumental as the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of same-sex marriage
November 29, 2024 at 2:42 PM
This is as monumental as the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of same-sex marriage