ArticlePsychological science2022
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults' Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century.
Article in Psychological science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Dental students' Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality profile in the past 50 years: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of dental education · 2024Pooled it
- Insights into neuroscience from the representative birth cohort samples of a multidisciplinary longitudinal study.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2026Review
- Genetic associations with education have increased and are patterned by socioeconomic context: Evidence from 3 studies born 1946-1970.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Trends over 45 years in personality traits among older populations.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Generational Trends in Children's Shyness: Does COVID-19 Matter?Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Second Victims Among Austrian Nurses (SeViD-A2 Study).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Applicability and Validity of Second Victim Assessment Instruments among General Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants (SEVID-IX Study).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Society and developmental theory generally assume that there are wide generational differences in personality. Yet evidence showing historical change in the levels of adult Big Five traits is scarce and particularly so for developmental change. We tracked adult trajectories of personality in 4,732 participants (age:
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