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Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and conceptual issues.

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Dispositional negativity in the wild: Social environment governs momentary emotional experience

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the social environment plays a central role in shaping the moment-by-moment emotional experience of 127 young adults selectively recruited to represent a broad spectrum of dispositional negativity and that individuals with a more negative disposition derive much larger emotional benefits from the company of close companions.
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Interest in mathematics = interest in mathematics? What general measures of interest reflect when the object of interest changes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed questionnaires that survey students' interest concerning the different characters of mathematics explicitly and analyzed the quality of the developed scales and whether it is possible to differentiate interest facets according to the different character of mathematics.
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Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (nonverbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/planning), and economic (time, risk) preferences, with 100 students at a small public undergraduate liberal arts college in the Midwestern US as part of a larger study that collected the same measures from 1,065 trainee truckers.
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Small Victories: Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Task Completion and Debt Repayment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the concept of small victories as the ability of dividing a task into smaller parts and completing the parts from smallest size to largest size can help people realize quick motivational gains that increase their likelihood of completing the task.
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The big five personality dimensions and job performance: a meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation of the Big Five personality dimensions (extraversion, emotional stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience) to three job performance criteria (job proficiency, training proficiency, and personnel data) for five occupational groups (professionals, police, managers, sales, and skilled/semi-skilled).

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A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains

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An introduction to the five-factor model and its applications.

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