Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Arnulf, Jan Ketil"
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A new approach to psychological measures in leadership research
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Bong, Chih How (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Is survey data a source of new information, or could surveys just be begging their questions? The authors of this opinion piece suspect that survey data in leadership research do not reflect attitudes to workplace phenomena. ... -
Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths
Tomas, Casas I Klett; Arnulf, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Our study analyzes a gap in research on Chinese and Western management teams, based on a broad literature review. We claim that prevalent theoretical perspectives in the management team literature might be biased toward a ... -
Career transitions and career success from a lifespan developmental perspective: A 15 year longitudinal study
Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg; Sanders, Karin; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Dysvik, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We draw on the conservation of resources theory to examine how upward and horizontal career transitions contribute to both objective and subjective career success among a longitudinal sample, covering the first 10 to 15 ... -
Culture blind leadership research: How semantically determined survey data may fail to detect cultural differences
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent ... -
Dark- and bright-side reactions to government advice about Covid-19, and a test of a method to moderate such reactions
Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Furnham, Adrian; Grover, Simmy; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Horne, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of this paper was to study how individual differences in personality shape reactions to authorities' health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic and how such reactions can be modified. Three studies, with between ... -
Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Others, 2022)This study explored how the Big Five personality traits, as well as measures of personality disorders, are related to two different measures of conspiracy theories (CTs)The two measures correlated r = .58 and were applied ... -
Does grade point average have a long-lasting impact on career success later in life? A resource caravans' perspective from adolescence to mid-career
Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Norbom, Hans Marius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)We draw on a resource caravans' perspective to explain pathways to career success among a longitudinal sample, covering the first 15 years of their careers. By applying a latent growth model, we investigate how the role ... -
Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Nimon, Kim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Properties of a Mindset Scale
Mathisen, John-Erik; Arnulf, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This study builds on research on mindsets from laboratory research to develop and test a measurement scale for entrepreneurial mindsets. A three-dimensional scale was constructed measuring elaborating mindsets, implemental ... -
Explanations for the Sources of Wealth: It Is Not a Just World
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Five hundred participants indicated the extent to which they thought very wealthy people had become rich from four routes: three by personal effort (executive, investor, entrepreneur) and one by inheritance. These ratings ... -
Individual characteristics in arts management careers: investigating the highly sensitive person scale on motivation to lead
Farstad, Christian Winther; Arnulf, Jan Ketil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Research on personality in leadership indicates that self-selection to leadership careers and artistic careers correlates with diverging personality profiles. People in leadership careers traditionally display lower ... -
Inviting Wonder in Organization: Tiger, Sandstone, Horror, Snowball
Carlsen, Arne; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Zhao, Weitao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017) -
Is psychological science progressing? Explained variance in PsycINFO articles during the period 1956 to 2022
Smedslund, Geir; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Smedslund, Jan (Others, 2022)We aimed to numerically assess the progress of modern psychological science. Average explained variance in 1565 included articles was 42.8 percent, and this was constant during 1956 to 2022. We explored whether this ... -
Like or want? Gender differences in attitudes toward online shopping in China
Dai, Wanwen; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Iao, Laileng; Wan, Pei; Dai, Haojin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)While previous studies indicate that female consumers display less trust for online shopping than males do, there is little research to addresses the reasons behind this difference. Our study applies a combination of both ... -
Limits of a Second Language: Native and Second Languages in Management Team Communication
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Dai, Wanwen; Lu, Hui; Niu, Zhe (Others, 2021)Cultural differences in speech acts are common challenges in management involving Chinese and Western managers. Comparing four groups – Native-speaking Chinese, English-speaking Chinese, Chinese-speaking Westerners, and ... -
Measuring the menu, not the food: “psychometric” data may instead measure “lingometrics” (and miss its greatest potential)
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Olsson, Ulf Henning; Nimon, Kim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This is a review of a range of empirical studies that use digital text algorithms to predict and model response patterns from humans to Likert-scale items, using texts only as inputs. The studies show that statistics used ... -
Narcissism and creativity
Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Furnham, Adrian; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this study, we investigated the relationship between narcissism, creative personality traits, ideational fluency, and accomplishments in various creative activities. We measured narcissism with the Narcissistic Personality ... -
“Never mind the fine print”: The interaction of semantics with attitude strength beliefs on corporate cover-ups
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed; Others, 2024)This study examined the interaction between attitude strength and the cognitive constraints imposed by the semantic properties of measurement items. It made use of digital algorithms and built on the semantic theory of ... -
Organizational change capacity and composition of management teams : A visualization of how personality traits may restrain team adaptability
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This study explores ten management teams over 33 monthly financial reporting terms and a critical incident requiring readjustment of business. Using financial data, market information and personality data, it is shown that ... -
Overlapping semantics of leadership and heroism: expectations of omnipotence, identification with ideal leaders and disappointment in real managers
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)People may confuse leadership with heroism due to the semantic overlap between their descriptions. This may explain some facets of fascination with leadership and obstructions to differentiated viewpoints of leadership as ...