Neurosensitivität ist ein fundamentales Persönlichkeitsmerkmal, welches auf der Sensitivität des zentralen Nervensystems basiert. Definiert wird Neurosensitivität als eine Art Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit; nämlich als die Fähigkeit, Umgebungsreize zu registrieren und zu verarbeiten. Dabei...

This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...

This paper proposes a method for empirically mapping psychological personality traits to economic preferences. Careful modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link between economic and psychological systems for...

A nascent but burgeoning literature examines the importance of non-cognitive skills in determining success across many facets of life. The majority of these papers treat these skills as fixed traits for adults. We estimate the impact of a number of life events on the Big Five personality traits...

This study examines the association between chief executive officer (CEO) overconfidence and future stock price crash risk. Overconfident managers overestimate the returns to their investment projects and misperceive negative net present value (NPV) projects as value creating. They also tend to...

The way we describe and evaluate ourselves or self-concept has a significant effect on our behaviors. An individual who describes herself as altruistic is more likely to engage in helpful behaviors than someone who does not possess such self-concept. Self-concept, in turn, is influenced by...

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...

The effect of personality on performance is evident from past literature (Guha 1965; Anand 1977; Furnham and Zacherl 1986; Barrick and Mount 1991; Judge et al. 1997, 1999, and 2002; Feist 1998; Hochwarter et al. 2000; LePine and Dyne 2001; Seibert and Kraimer 2001; Barrick et al. 2002; Ilies and Judge 2002; Lim and Ployhart 2004). This...