Cognitive Investments in Academic Success: The Role of Need for Cognition at University
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Previous research has shown that Need for Cognition (NFC), the individual tendency to engage in and enjoy cognitive endeavors, contributes to academic performance.
Julia Grass +2 more
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DO PERSONALITY TRAITS PREDICT BIASEDNESS WHILE MAKING INVESTMENT DECISIONS?
International Journal of Accounting & Finance Review, 2021 The Investors’ rationality assumption of traditional finance theories has long been contested by behavioural finance over the past few decades. Various non-financial factors, responsible for shaping investors’ behaviour, including individual personality characteristics and the social environments surrounding the decisions to be made, have emerged in ...
G. Badri Narayanan, Ashutosh Yadav
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Intellectual Investment, Dopaminergic Gene Variation, and Life Events: A Critical Examination
Personality Neuroscience, 2018 Need for Cognition (NFC) and Openness to Ideas are intellectual investment traits that are characterized by a tendency to seek out, engage in and enjoy effortful cognitive activity.
Alexander Strobel +6 more
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, 2023 This paper introduces Dynamic Intellectual Investment Trait and State Theory, which (a) centers on dynamic within-person reciprocal relationships between cognitive performance states and intellectual investment personality states, (b) integrates within-person dynamics and developmental trajectories in cognitive abilities and intellectual investment ...
Lisa Bardach +4 more
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Is there any overtrading in stock markets? The moderating role of big five personality traits and gender in a unilateral trend stock market. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Overtrading is a common anomaly among stock investors. This study examines the relationship between overtrading and investment returns and the impact of the Big Five traits and gender on overtrading in a unilateral trend stock market using a simulated ...
Jian Zhang +3 more
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Vocations as a source of identity: reciprocal relations between Big Five personality traits and RIASEC characteristics [PDF]
, 2014 Although work is a core part of life, the direction of influence from personality to work has typically been conceived as only unidirectional. The present study aims to contribute to the literature by considering reciprocal relations between personality ...
De Fruyt, Filip, Wille, Bart
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Moonshots, Investment Booms, and Selection Bias in the Transmission of Cultural Traits [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Significance What drives innovation, risk taking, and investment booms? We study these phenomena using a model of decision making by firms that make biased observations of prior returns. We assume that firms are more likely to observe large successes than small successes or failures.
David Hirshleifer, Joshua B. Plotkin
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Early maternal experience shapes offspring performance in the wild [PDF]
, 2013 Both the environments experienced by a mother as a juvenile and an adult can affect her investment in offspring. However, the implications of these maternal legacies, both juvenile and adult, for offspring fitness in natural populations are unclear.
Armstrong, J.D. +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 A unique riparian ecosystem has been created as a result of anti-seasonal flooding after reservoir operations, which notably influences the distribution patterns of plant communities and their functional characteristics in the riparian zone.
Xiaoling Li +15 more
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Investment in sensory structures, testis size, and wing coloration in males of a diurnal moth species: trade-offs or correlated growth? [PDF]
, 2015 For dioecious animals, reproductive success typically involves an exchange between the sexes of signals that provide information about mate location and quality.
Elgar, Mark A. +4 more
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