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Creativity, Analytical Skills, Personality Traits, and Innovation Game Behavior in the Lab: An Experiment
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills … participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …
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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity ? A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity
Alfken, Christoph - European Regional Science Association - 2014
ecological fallacy. Hitherto, economic geographers seem to have ignored insides from other disciplines studying creativity. In … psychology it is not a dichotomy of creative and non-creative individuals, instead it is acknowledged that creativity is a matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075806
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Creativity, analytical skills, personality traits, and innovative capability: A lab experiment
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2012
Innovation economics is usually neglecting the psychological tradition of creativity research. Our study is an attempt … to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far personality characteristics like creativity, analytical … are interrelated. We find that participants' performance in innovation games is related to their creativity, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981947
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Bedeutungsvolle Orte: Eine kultursoziologische Annäherung an kreative Handlungsressourcen in Städten
Merkel, Janet; Oppen, Maria - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012
development has given rise to new urban growth theories based on creativity. Explanations focus on spatial-structural dimensions … creative work and life. The aim of this paper is to present a cultural sociological view on creativity in the city. It is not … just the urban context that breeds creativity, but culturally (re)produced perceptions of particular places that creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984944
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The Association Between Perceived Income Inequality and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from a Social Survey in Japan
Oshio, Takashi; Urakawa, Kunio - In: Social Indicators Research 116 (2014) 3, pp. 755-770
Previous studies have shown that income inequality in society is negatively associated with individuals subjective well-being (SWB), such as their perceived happiness and self-rated health (SRH). However, it is not realistic to assume that individuals have precise information about actual income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010999381
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The Associations Between Parental Socio-Economic Conditions, Childhood Intelligence, Adult Personality Traits, Social Status and Mental Well-Being
Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 2, pp. 653-664
This study explored a longitudinal data set of 5,090 adults examining the associations between parental social status indicators (measured at birth), childhood intelligence (measured at age 11), personality traits, educational achievement and occupational prestige in relation to mental...
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An Investigation into the Relation between Personality Traits and Happiness at Work. A Case Study of Qom Province Post Bank
Gandomi, Abolfazl; Matin, Hasan Zarei; Zarea, Hamid; … - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) 2, pp. 38-54
The present study is aimed to survey the relation between personality traits and happiness at work among employees of Qom Province Post Bank. Through literature review and surveying different models eleven elements were identified in happiness at work. These elements are learning, openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850209
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The Role of Personality Traits in Perfectionism Orientation (Isfahan Melli Bank Employees as Case Study)
Forghani, Mohammad Hossein; Ghafari, Mohamad; Sayyed … - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 3 (2013) 1, pp. 52-59
The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of personality traits in perfectionism orientation among Isfahan Melli Bank employees. The statistical population of this study consists of the employees of Melli Bank in the city of Isfahan in the third season of 2012. The sample size was 150...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850232
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND PERSONALITY TRAIT AMONG BANK EMPLOYEES
Naz, Sumaira; Rehman, Sumaira; Saqib, Humaira - In: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business 11 No 3 Paper 5 June (2013) 5, pp. 57-72
Purpose of the current study is to discover the relationship between rating on annual progress reports and job satisfaction; between personality traits and job satisfaction among Banks employees; and to explore age, gender salary, marital status, and education differences on job satisfaction....
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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