Search Results - subject:"Individual Differences"

An examination of the influence of implicit theories, attribution styles, and performance cues on questionnaire measures of leadership

Martinko, Mark J.; Randolph-Seng, Brandon; Shen, Winny; … - In: Journal of leadership & organizational studies : JLOS; … 25 (2018) 1, pp. 116-133

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Moral judgments, gender, and antisocial preferences : an experimental study

Bracht, Juergen; Zylbersztejn, Adam - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 85 (2018) 3/4, pp. 389-406

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Psychological characteristics and household savings behavior : the importance of accounting for latent heterogeneity

Gerhard, Patrick; Gladstone, Joe J.; Hoffmann, Arvid O. I. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 148 (2018), pp. 66-82

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Gender Differences In Commitment To Change: Impacted By Gender?

DEPREZ, J.; BROECK, H. VAN DEN; COOLS, E.; … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2012

The successful implementation of change initiatives remains challenging, as a high number of change processes still fail due to ‘human factor problems’. Following this challenge, our research aimed to investigate how individuals are differently affected by organizational change by looking at...

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Individual Differences in Learning Capabilities: Opportunities and Prospects of Behavioral Genetic Research

Tikhomirova, Tatyana; Malykh, Sergey; Kovas, Yuliya - In: Educational Studies (2012) 4, pp. 186-199

International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning, Goldsmiths College … emphasizes the significance of scientific and experimental research in studying the nature of individual differences, i.e. in … environment. Individual differences in cognitive and learning capabilities are formed in the course of complex genotype …

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Choosing with confidence: Self-efficacy and preferences for choice

Reed, Andrew E.; Mikels, Joseph A.; Lockenhoff, Corinna E. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 2, pp. 173-180

Previous research on the role of choice set size in decision making has focused on decision outcomes and satisfaction. In contrast, little is known about interindividual differences in preferences for larger versus smaller choice sets, let alone the causes of such differences. Drawing on...

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The unconscious thought advantage: Further replication failures from a search for confirmatory evidence

Nieuwenstein, Mark; Rijn, Hedderik van - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 6, pp. 779-798

According to the deliberation without attention (DWA) hypothesis, people facing a difficult choice will make a better decision after a period of distraction than after an equally long period of conscious deliberation, an effect referred to as the unconscious thought advantage (UTA). The status...

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Measuring risk literacy: The Berlin Numeracy Test

Cokely, Edward T.; Galesic, Mirta; Schulz, Eric; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 1, pp. 25-47

We introduce the Berlin Numeracy Test, a new psychometrically sound instrument that quickly assesses statistical numeracy and risk literacy. We present 21 studies (n=5336) showing robust psychometric discriminability across 15 countries (e.g., Germany, Pakistan, Japan, USA) and diverse samples...

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Back or to the future? Preferences of time travelers

Ettlin, Florence; Hertwig, Ralph - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 4, pp. 373-382

Popular culture reflects whatever piques our imagination. Think of the myriad movies and books that take viewers and readers on an imaginary journey to the past or the future (e.g., Gladiator, The Time Machine). Despite the ubiquity of time travel as a theme in cultural expression, the factors...

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Herding in Financial Behaviour: A Behavioural and Neuroeconomic Analysis of Individual Differences

Baddeley, M.; Burke, C.; Schultz, W.; Tobler, P. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2012

-making. Individual differences also correlate strongly with amygdala activations during herding decisions. These findings are used to … construct a two stage least squares model of financial herding which confirms that individual differences and neural responses … individual characteristics including gender, age and various personality traits. In addition fMRI evidence shows that individual …

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