Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …

than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …

to consider behavioral and personality aspects, enablingus to treat a new field. As for the behavioral aspect, it emerges … in a cooperative rather than uncooperative atmosphere. As for the personality aspect, the game is examined from four …

than men. In this paper, we use personality variables to understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a … competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors, where especially neuroticism has been related to performance in …

than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personality variables to … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …

Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of … state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we …

Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …

of organisations. Personality traits of subjects are elicited by a personality questionnaire (Cattell's 16 PF-R) which is … well established in personnel psychology. Linking the assessed personality traits with the observed behaviour in the game … allows us to derive detailed personality profiles for different behavioural patterns. Personality profiles differ …

understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors …