Female canaries invest more in response to an exaggerated male trait
Animal Behaviour, 2013Females choose their mate on the basis of secondary sexual characters such as physical ornaments, courtship behaviours or vocalizations. In male birds, vocalizations are known to increase their attractiveness and consequently their probability of copulation.
Garcia-Fernandez, Violaine +5 more
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The Role of Personality Traits in Investment Decisions of Young Adults
EDAMBA 2022: Conference Proceedings, 2023This paper studies the relationship between the Big five personality traits, socio-economic characteristics and the investment choices of young adults. The data used in the analysis was obtained from a survey which aimed to identify individual’s personality traits, risk aversion and preferred investment strategy.
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Relationship between risk aversion, risky investment intention, investment choices
Kybernetes, 2020Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of subjective and financial literacy, big five personality traits and emotions (fear, anger, hope and sadness) on risk aversion, risky investment intention and investment choices were investigated.
NAYMAN HAMAMCI, Hatice, AREN, Selim
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Personality traits and investment decisions in South Africa
2020Personality traits refers to an individual’s habitual patterns of behaviour and emotional reaction to different situations. The aim of this study was to determine how personality traits can possibly influence South African investment decisions. This study further aimed at contributing towards the field of investment management, by assisting investment ...
Dickason-Koekemoer, Z. +2 more
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Preference for Risk in Investing as a Function of Trait Optimism and Gender
Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2003This research examines the role of gender and optimism on the riskiness of investment choices of students (N = 66) in a semester long investment contest with both monetary and academic incentives. Data suggest that males make more risky investment choices than females, and that this difference was primarily due to the riskier choices of optimistic ...
James Felton +2 more
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Investment in boney defensive traits alters organismal stoichiometry and excretion in fish
Oecologia, 2016Understanding how trait diversification alters ecosystem processes is an important goal for ecological and evolutionary studies. Ecological stoichiometry provides a framework for predicting how traits affect ecosystem function. The growth rate hypothesis of ecological stoichiometry links growth and phosphorus (P) body composition in taxa where nucleic ...
El-Sabaawi, Rana W. +4 more
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Evolution, Traits, and the Stages of Human Courtship: Qualifying the Parental Investment Model
Journal of Personality, 1990ABSTRACT Individual differences are explicitly connected to social interaction in Darwin's notion of sexual selection Traits that increase the probability of successful reproduction will tend to increase in frequency This process operates partly through differential choice, by one sex, of certain traits in the other According to the parental ...
D T, Kenrick +3 more
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Personality Traits and the Propensity to Invest in the Nigerian Stock Exchange
Journal of Banking and Finance ResearchThis study examines the influence of personality traits on individual investment propensity in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), with specific focus on the Big Five personality dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and neuroticism.
Mang, Niri Job +3 more
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Influence of personality traits and behavioral biases on investment decision of investors
Asian Journal of Management, 2017The present study focuses on the relation between the investor personality traits, behavioral biases and investment decisions. The data was collected from 500 investors who invest through LSE Securities ltd in Punjab by using a structured questionnaire. Multiple Regression test was applied through SPSS to test the significance of relationship among the
Saloni Raheja, Babli Dhiman
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Optimization of investment performance based on personality traits
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