The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Understanding conscientiousness across the life course: An economic perspective.

“…This is consistent with a large body of evidence summarized in Borghans et al (2008) and Almlund et al (2011) and some of the papers in this issue that show that psychological capabilities change over the lifetime, although there is substantial persistence in them.…”

An Empirical Research on Investor Biases in Financial Decision-Making, Financial Risk Tolerance and Financial Personality

“…These five factors have been known as Big Five since Goldberg (1971). Big Five Factors were determined as Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism or Emotional Stability (Borghans et al 2008). This model reflects considerations regarding the world and their interaction with world according to their personality traits by showing the behavioral tendencies of individuals.…”

Relationship between Risk Taking Behaviour, Personality and Sensation Seeking Tendencies among N.C.C cadets

“…Concurrent studies of personality and risky activity like drinking in young adults show a strong predictability of substance use from sensation seeking but practically no correlation with anxiety or neuroticism [17] [18] [19]. [20] Suggest that personality may help explain the apparent inconsistency, offering support to [21] ,who argument that economists should consider a multi-domain approach to measuring risk attitudes.…”