Normative changes in interests from adolescence to adulthood: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

KA Hoff, DA Briley, CJM Wee, J Rounds - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Vocational interests predict a variety of important outcomes and are among the most widely
applied individual difference constructs in psychology and education. Despite over 90 years …

Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history

N Baumard, L Safra, M Martins, C Chevallier - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Psychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the
psychology of individuals–in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual …

The rising return to noncognitive skill

PA Edin, P Fredriksson, M Nybom… - … Economic Journal: Applied …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This paper uses administrative data from Sweden to document trends in the labor market
returns to skills. Between 1992 and 2013, the economic return to noncognitive skill—a …

Are entrepreneurs born or made? The influence of personality

MI López-Núñez, S Rubio-Valdehita… - Personality and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently, entrepreneurship is of great importance to economic growth and reduced
unemployment. Since entrepreneurial behaviour is multidimensional, interest in …

Niche diversity can explain cross-cultural differences in personality structure

PE Smaldino, A Lukaszewski, C von Rueden… - Nature Human …, 2019 - nature.com
The covariance structure of personality traits derived from statistical models (for example,
Big Five) is often assumed to be a human universal. Cross-cultural studies have challenged …

Using within-person change in three large panel studies to estimate personality age trajectories.

IS Seifert, JM Rohrer, SC Schmukle - Journal of personality and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
How does personality change when people get older? Numerous studies have investigated
this question, overall supporting the idea of so-called personality maturation. However …

The social origins of inventors

P Aghion, U Akcigit, A Hyytinen, O Toivanen - 2017 - nber.org
In this paper we merge three datasets-individual income data, patenting data, and IQ data-to
analyze the determinants of an individual's probability of inventing. We find that:(i) parental …

How has the effect of brand personality on customer-based brand equity changed over time? Longitudinal evidence from a panel data set spanning 18 years

J Luffarelli, SA Delre, P Landgraf - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 2023 - Springer
Using a panel data set (n= 49,626), this research tests opposing hypotheses about the
influence of brand personality dimensions (BPDs) on customer-based brand equity (CBBE) …

The role of historical change for adult development and aging: Towards a theoretical framework about the how and the why.

J Drewelies, O Huxhold, D Gerstorf - Psychology and aging, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
The role of historical change for individual functioning and development has long been a
central feature of life span psychological and life course sociological theory. However, the …

Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies? Comparing narcissism and self-esteem in East and West Germany

A Vater, S Moritz, S Roepke - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Narcissism scores are higher in individualistic cultures compared with more collectivistic
cultures. However, the impact of sociocultural factors on narcissism and self-esteem has not …