What is it about?
Motivation changes with time, cognition is more or less constant. Age dependence is one manifestation of change in time and therefore motivation. This publication tracks the history of proposing a theory of aging in adults. The theory explains anecdotal changes in perception over age and is tested by comparing funniness scores of arbitrary jokes over age groups. The origin of the theory comes from a nonlinear Volterra model of animal motivation and a cybernetic explanation of human aging, as a decline in information bandwidth of the brain. The reliability of age trend classified funniness scores are compared with Big Five scores and found that raw funniness score have higher Chronbach's alpha than Big Five for 800 participant online Mag Turk Google data.
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Why is it important?
Internal consistency (Chronbach's Alpha) is a measure of data reliability. The reliability of arbitrary sentences is expected to reflect the randomness of selection and to be lower than carefully formulated questions. Higher reliability could mean more credibility of the classification of humour and promises improvement in the assessment of personality.
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The article is built on 800 respondents to a Google Mag Turk questionnaire. I hope other researchers will be motivated to run the same analysis on their data, I will be pleased to cooperate. Data and list of arbitrary jokes are available online at https://osf.io/dx79n/.
Faisal L. Kadri
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This page is a summary of: Reinventing personality from a Volterra nonlinear model of motivation, Acta Europeana Systemica, June 2022, Centre de Recherche en Demographie et Societes,
DOI: 10.14428/aes.v11i1.63013.
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