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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology / Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borghans, Lex.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16917.
- NBER working paper series no. w16917
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2011.
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