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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
10.05.2021| Jan Feld (Victoria University of Wellington)
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
17.05.2021| Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Decades of studies identify personality traits as an important predictor of life outcomes. However, previous investigations of personality-outcome associations have not taken a principled approach to covariate use or other sampling strategies to ensure the robustness of personality-outcome associations. The result is that it is unclear (1)...
27.01.2021| Emorie Beck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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SOEPpapers 1153 / 2021
Economists increasingly recognise the importance of personality traits for socio-economic outcomes, but little is known about the stability of these traits over the life cycle. Existing empirical contributions typically focus on age patterns and disregard cohort and period influences. This paper contributes novel evidence for the separability of age, period, and cohort effects for a broad range of personality ...
2021| Bernd Fitzenberger, Gary Mena, Jan Nimczik, Uwe Sunde
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DIW Roundup
Entscheidende Charakteristika einer modernen Dienstleistungs- und damit auch beruflichen „Ellenbogen“-Gesellschaft sind interpersonelle Kommunikation und Interaktion von Angesicht zu Angesicht– selbst in einer digitalen Welt. Studien im Bereich Personalgewinnung zeigen, dass Bewerberinnen und Bewerber im persönlichen Gespräch häufig besser bewertet werden als in...
14.12.2021| Salmai Qari
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SOEPpapers 1150 / 2021
Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...
2021| Adam Ayaita
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
In:
Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, S. 736–761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
Loneliness levels were assessed in a longitudinal, nationwide sample (N total = 6,010) collected over the course of the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. When in-person social contact restrictions were put in place, loneliness increased significantly compared to prepandemic levels but began to decrease again even before contact restrictions were eased. The loneliness costs were distributed ...
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Social Psychological and Personality Science
13 (2022), 3, S. 769–780
| Theresa M. Entringer, Samuel D. Gosling
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
Personality traits like neuroticism show both continuity and change across adolescence and adulthood, with most pronounced changes occurring in young adulthood. It has been assumed, but insufficiently examined, that trait changes occur gradually over the years through the accumulation of daily experiences. The current longitudinal measurement burst study examined (a) how changes in average momentary ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
121 (2021), 3, S. 691-706
| Cornelia Wrzus, Gloria Luong, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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Externe referierte Aufsätze
Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead ...
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Collabra: Psychology
7 (2021), 1, 23473, 36 S.
| Julia Sander, Paul Schumann, David Richter, Jule Specht