in a trust game. Detailed personality profiles are derived and it is shown that they differ significantly between …We investigate an experimental representatives’ trust game which resembles trust relation-ships between representatives … of organisations. Personality traits of subjects are elicited by a personality questionnaire (Cattell’s 16 PF-R) which is …

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 seven aspects: professional competence, the 'big five' personality …

understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …. We first testwhether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is related …

within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …

We use the investment game introduced by Berg, Dickhaut and McCabe (1995) to explore gender differences in trust and … greater trust than women do while women show much higher levels of reciprocity. Trusting behavior is driven strongly by … expectations of reciprocation. We posit that the lower levels of trust exhibited by women may be attributed to a higher degree of …

experiments on the Trust Game (Berg et al.; 1995), where subjects also filled a questionnaire containing the main attitudinal …Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their … correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of …