Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- 31 Personality at Work
- 32 Educational Psychology
- 33 Personality in Clinical Psychology
- 34 Personality and Crime
- 35 Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomic Behavior
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
35 - Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomic Behavior
from Part VII - Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- General Introduction
- Part I Foundational Issues: History and Approaches to Personality
- Part II Description and Measurement: How Personality Is Studied
- Part III Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes
- Part IV Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality
- Part V Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality
- Part VI Social and Cultural Processes: Personality at the Intersection of Society
- Part VII Applications of Personality Psychology: Personality Traits and Processes in Action
- 31 Personality at Work
- 32 Educational Psychology
- 33 Personality in Clinical Psychology
- 34 Personality and Crime
- 35 Personality, Preferences and Socioeconomic Behavior
- Addendum: Statistical Analyses and Computer Programming in Personality
- Index
- References
Summary
Three fundamental questions have tasked philosophers and scientists across time: Where do we come from?”, “Why are we here?” and “Why do people do what they do?” Academics working within behavioral economics (i.e., the application of economic and psychological approaches to understand how individuals make economic decisions) and personality psychology (i.e., the study of relatively stable patterns of behavior and experience) have addressed the third question. Behavioral economists examine how certain incentive structures, frames or choice architectures nudge people’s choices (preferences). Similarly, personality psychologists explore how different traits interact with context to predict behavior. Both traditions have developed their own theoretical frameworks, analytic strategies and methods. Accordingly, personality psychologists and economists have much they can learn from each other with the aim of answering the third fundamental question and by doing so offer better and more nuanced answers about determinants of behavior (Borghans, Duckworth, Heckman & ter Weel, 2008; Cunha & Heckman, 2008; Ferguson, 2015; Ozer & Bennet-Martinez, 2006; Roberts, Kuneel, Shiner, Caspi & Goldberg, 2007). The aim of this chapter is to offer some suggestions that may guide this integration.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 477 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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