Identification problems in personality psychology
By: Lex Borghans ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16917; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16917.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology.  The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined.  These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations.  In general, measures are determined by these multiple traits and do not identify any particular trait unless incentives and other traits are controlled for.  Using two data sets, we show, as an example, that substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are explained by personality variables"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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