Personality Traits
Personality captures a person’s essence. Understanding one’s personality helps explain and predict the decisions an individual makes and what a person will do. This chapter focuses on the predominant structural model of personality — the Five-Factor Model — which encapsulates personality using five...
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| author | Fung, L. Durand, Robert |
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| description | Personality captures a person’s essence. Understanding one’s personality helps explain and predict the decisions an individual makes and what a person will do. This chapter focuses on the predominant structural model of personality — the Five-Factor Model — which encapsulates personality using five higher-order traits: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience/Intellect. The Five-Factor Model is rooted in biology and is genetically based. Personality traits are a major aspect of risk taking and overconfidence behaviors. Understanding personality can improve decision-making if it helps to regulate and override dispositional tendencies leading to suboptimal outcomes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-314742023-02-27T07:34:31Z Personality Traits Fung, L. Durand, Robert H. Kent Baker Victor Ricciardi behavioral finance behavioural economics behavioural finance Personality traits overconfidence biological basis of personality traits gender Five-Factor Model of personality risk-taking behavior behavioral economics Personality captures a person’s essence. Understanding one’s personality helps explain and predict the decisions an individual makes and what a person will do. This chapter focuses on the predominant structural model of personality — the Five-Factor Model — which encapsulates personality using five higher-order traits: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience/Intellect. The Five-Factor Model is rooted in biology and is genetically based. Personality traits are a major aspect of risk taking and overconfidence behaviors. Understanding personality can improve decision-making if it helps to regulate and override dispositional tendencies leading to suboptimal outcomes. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31474 John Wiley and Sons, inc restricted |
| spellingShingle | behavioral finance behavioural economics behavioural finance Personality traits overconfidence biological basis of personality traits gender Five-Factor Model of personality risk-taking behavior behavioral economics Fung, L. Durand, Robert Personality Traits |
| title | Personality Traits |
| title_full | Personality Traits |
| title_fullStr | Personality Traits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personality Traits |
| title_short | Personality Traits |
| title_sort | personality traits |
| topic | behavioral finance behavioural economics behavioural finance Personality traits overconfidence biological basis of personality traits gender Five-Factor Model of personality risk-taking behavior behavioral economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31474 |