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Longitudinal Coupling of Momentary Stress Reactivity and Trait Neuroticism: Specificity of States, Traits, and Age Period

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 ...

Leisure Activities as a Driver of Personality Development? A Random-Intercept Cross-lagged Panel Model across 13 Years in Adulthood

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 ...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie wirkt sich im zweiten Lockdown stärker auf das Wohlbefinden aus

Bereits zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie und des ersten Lockdowns wurde vermutet, dass die Krise mit einer starken psychischen Belastung der Bevölkerung einhergehen würde. Im zweiten, deutlich längeren Lockdown wurden diese Befürchtungen noch größer. Denn viele sahen dadurch die psychische Gesundheit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen akut bedroht. Wie aktuelle...

Corona-Pandemie: Vertrauensvolle Menschen sind eher zur Impfung bereit und halten sich eher an AHA-Regeln

24. Juni 2021 - In von Unsicherheit geprägten Zeiten wie der COVID-19-Pandemie ist Vertrauen in die Mitmenschen eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Ressource: Denn die Pandemie kann nicht durch einzelne Institutionen oder Personen, sondern nur durch breite gesellschaftliche Kooperation überwunden werden. Wie aktuelle Ergebnisse der SOEP-CoV-Studie zeigen, ist das Vertrauen in andere auch in...

2D:4D Does Not Predict Economic Preferences: Evidence from a Large, Representative Sample

The digit ratio (2D:4D) is considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero, and there has been a recent surge of studies testing whether 2D:4D is associated with economic preferences. Although the results are not conclusive, previous studies have reported statistically significant correlations between 2D:4D and risk taking, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity and trust. However, ...

Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes

Extracting Agency and Communion from the Big Five: A Four-Way Competition

Agency and communion are the two fundamental content dimensions in psychology. The two dimensions figure prominently in many psychological realms (personality, social, self, motivational, cross-cultural, etc.). In contemporary research, however, personality is most commonly measured within the Big Five framework. We developed novel agency and communion scales based on the items from the most popular ...

CRC Workshop: Expectations and Behavior

Subjective belief formation and stock market participation in Germany

This paper exploits unique variation induced by two information treatments on a sample of German households in 2017 and 2018 to evaluate how subjective belief formation about stock market returns affects stock market participation and portfolio choice. I find that on average the information treatments do not shift individual expectations about returns significantly. Additionally, I show that...

MillionärInnen sind risikobereiter und emotional stabiler

SOEP-Studie beschreibt erstmals auf Basis von belastbaren Daten die Persönlichkeit von MillionärInnen – Vor allem Selfmade-MillionärInnen unterscheiden sich in ihrer Persönlichkeit von der Allgemeinbevölkerung – Je stärker die „Millionärspersönlichkeit“ ausgeprägt ist, desto größer ist das Vermögen MillionärInnen ...