The personality traits of self-made and inherited millionaires

Very wealthy people influence political and societal processes by wielding their economic power through foundations, lobbying groups, media campaigns, as investors and employers. Because personality shapes goals, attitudes, and behaviour, it is important to understand the personality traits that characterize the rich. We used representative survey data to construct two large samples, one from the general population and one consisting of individuals with at least 1 million euros in individual net wealth, to analyse what personality traits characterize the wealthy and why their traits differ from those of the general population. High wealth was associated with higher Risk tolerance, Emotional Stability, Openness, Extraversion, and Conscientiousness. This “rich” personality profile was more prominent among individuals who had accumulated wealth through their own efforts (“self-mades”) than among individuals who had been born into wealth (“inheritors”). Thus, our evidence is suggestive of a unique configuration of personality traits contributing to self-made millionaires’ economic success

Формування первинного капіталу в умовах кризи управління українською промисловістю (1991–1998 рр.)

Стаття присвячена історії початкового періоду ринкової трансформації в українській промисловості. Особлива увага зосереджена на формуванні первинного приватного капіталу в Україні. Розглянуті, зокрема, основні моделі цього процесу в історичній ретроспективі.The article deals with the history of Ukrainian industry market transformation, its initial stage in particular. Special attention has been paid to the private capital accumulation in Ukraine. The main models of this process have been studied in the historical retrospection

Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants

Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale, Dirty Dozen, Psychological Entitlement Scale, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Symptoms from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Version IV, Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire-Short Form, Single-Item Narcissism Scale, and brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory). The findings of Study 1 (N = 5,736) revealed heterogeneity in how strongly the measures are correlated. Some instruments loaded clearly on one of the three factors proposed by previous research (i.e., Neuroticism, Extraversion, Antagonism), while others cross-loaded across factors and in distinct ways. Cross-sectional analyses using each measure and meta-analytic results across all measures (Study 2) with a total sample of 270,029 participants suggest consistent linear age effects (random effects meta-analytic effect of r = -.104), with narcissism being highest in young adulthood. Consistent gender differences also emerged (random effects meta-analytic effect was -.079), such that men scored higher in narcissism than women. Quadratic age effects and Age × Gender effects were generally very small and inconsistent. We conclude that despite the various conceptualizations of narcissism, age and gender differences are generalizable across the eight measures used in the present study. However, their size varied based on the instrument used. We discuss the sources of this heterogeneity and the potential mechanisms for age and gender differences

Validation of the NARQ-S

The files uploaded here constitute the Suppplementary Online Materials (SOM) for our paper on the validation of the short form (NARQ-S; Leckelt et al., 2016) of the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (Back et al., 2013). Detailed information on each of the samples used as well as additional analyses and results can be found in the files provided here

The rich are different: Unraveling the perceived and self-reported personality profiles of high net-worth individuals

Here you can find the data from Sample 3 as used in "The rich are different: Unraveling the perceived and self-reported personality profiles of high net-worth individuals" The data can be read into R using the command: read.table( "< path to file >/Sample 3.txt", header =T, sep = "\t"

Robust Worldwide Evidence that Economic Inequality is Associated with Risk-Taking

This OSF project contains data, code, and supplementary information for the manuscript "Robust Worldwide Evidence that Economic Inequality is Associated with Risk-Taking" (working title