to cognitive ability are generally consistent across family background groups, personality traits have very different …

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 …

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … explained by personality variables. …

traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and cohabiting partnerships. Changing …, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

behaviors are referred to as behavioral syndromes or personalities. Personality traits are often phenotypically and genetically … not. These results show that although personalities have a rigid structure the relation between personality traits is …

Individual differences in personality affect behavior in novel or challenging situations. Personality traits may be … tables in winter correlated with a heritable personality trait (as measured by exploratory behavior in a novel environment … personality is context-dependent in the wild. We discuss how these patterns in dominance can explain earlier reported effects of …

adolescents in order to understand their behaviors and their personality changes in the structure inherent in this ontogenetic …