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Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trust, sociability and stock market participation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We investigate the effects of both trust and sociability for stock market participation, the role of which has been examined separately by existing finance literature. We use internationally comparable household data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and
Georgarakos, Dimitris, Pasini, Giacomo
core   +1 more source

The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The study used descriptive and multivariate statistics analytical methods to explore relationships between the highest level of education expected by 15‐year‐old Romanian students and factors associated with student background (personal and academic), school characteristics and selected beliefs and social–emotional skills.
Camelia Truța   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Augmented Reality Affect Sociability, Entertainment, and Learning? A Field Experiment

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
Augmented reality (AR) applications have recently emerged for entertainment and educational purposes and have been proposed to have positive effects on social interaction.
Nina Savela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heterogeneous Stochastic Interactions for Multiple Agents in a Multi-armed Bandit Problem

open access: yes, 2019
We define and analyze a multi-agent multi-armed bandit problem in which decision-making agents can observe the choices and rewards of their neighbors. Neighbors are defined by a network graph with heterogeneous and stochastic interconnections.
Leonard, Naomi Ehrich, Madhushani, Udari
core   +1 more source

Exploring personality traits and mental toughness in early career teachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While some teachers thrive, in similar circumstances other teachers encounter considerable difficulties. This is particularly concerning in England, where high numbers of teachers with five or fewer years' experience leave the profession to take another job outside of teaching, and pupil numbers are outpacing teacher numbers (Bryan & Price ...
Joanne E. Taberner, Sarah MacQuarrie
wiley   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressivity and Sociability in “Celtic Men” [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This paper is part of a larger project which examines the sociable dimensions of computer-mediated communication in local newsgroups on the Internet.
Rutter, Jason, Smith, Greg
core  

“Open-Minded Couple Seeking a Third”: Queer Women in the Digital Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The decline of the lesbian bar and the dawn of the digital age, combined with the lack of a sufficient digital hook-up space for queer women, leaves a gaping hole in the potential for lesbian visibility and sociability.
Braaten, Elizabeth
core   +2 more sources

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