Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Borghans Lex 
Author-Name: Golsteyn Bart 
Author-Name: Heckman James 
Author-Name: Humphries John Eric 
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Abstract: This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology.The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadlydefined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentivesin situations. In general, measures are determined by these multiple traits and do notidentify any particular trait unless incentives and other traits are controlled for. Usingtwo data sets, we show, as an example, that substantial portions of the variance inachievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, areexplained by personality variables.
Keywords: Economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 004
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:49fee157-6380-4007-bbfa-d12102886c93/datastreams/ASSET1/content
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 222367
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2011004