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    • Pernicious Polychorics: The Impact and Detection of Underlying Non-normality 

      Foldnes, Njål; Grønneberg, Steffen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ordinal data in social science statistics are often modeled as discretizations of a multivariate normal vector. In contrast to the continuous case, where SEM estimation is also consistent under non-normality, violation of ...

    • Persistent rent extraction 

      Helland, Leif; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Representative democracy does not necessarily eliminate political corruption. Existing models explain the survival of rent-taking politicians by ideological divisions in the electorate and/or informational asymmetries. The ...

    • Person-Organization Fit in a military selection context 

      Sørlie, Henrik; Hetland, Jørn; Dysvik, Anders; Fosse, Thomas Hol; Martinsen, Øyvind L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The goal of personnel selection is to find predictors that, together, maximize the explained variance in important job outcomes such as Task Performance or Work Engagement. Common predictors include Intelligence and Big ...

    • Personality and demographic correlates of political ideology 

      Furnham, Adrian; Horne, George (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper was concerned with “bright” and “dark-side” personality trait correlates of political beliefs. In a series of three studies we asked people to rate their political beliefs on a simple, single, left-right, ...

    • Personality and political orientation 

      Furnham, Adrian; Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This study examined the incremental validity of the Big-Five personality traits over primarily demographic factors in predicting Left-Right political orientation (PO) in a large British adult sample. Gender and trait ...

    • Personality and wealth 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      To what extent do personality traits predict wealth in adulthood over and above standard demographic factors? In all 3240 adults in the UK completed a Big Five personality test and reported on their property wealth, savings ...

    • Personality at home vs. work: Does framing for work increase predictive validity of the Dark Triad on work outcomes? 

      Grover, Simmy; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In a between subject design 903 people completed a robust Dark Triad and a Big Five trait measure and each group was asked to report their behaviour in two situations: at work or in general. Those individuals that were ...

    • Personality correlates of passive-aggressiveness: a NEO-PI-R domain and facet analysis of the HDS Leisurely scale 

      Furnham, Adrian; Crump, John (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background: This study looked at the relationship between “bright-side” and “dark-side” personality variables by focusing on the controversial trait of Passive-Aggressiveness. Around 4800 British adults completed the ...

    • Personality traits and achievement motives: Theoretical and empirical relations between the NEO Personality Inventory-revised and the Achievment Motives Scale 

      Diseth, Åge; Martinsen, Øyvind Lund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      Theoretical and empirical relations between personality traits and motive dispositions were investigated by comparing scores of 3 15 undergraduate psychology students on the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised and the ...

    • Personality Traits and Socio-Demographic Variables as Predictors of Political Interest and Voting Behavior in a British Cohort 

      Furnham, Adrian; Cheng, Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study examines the associations between socio-demographic variables, the Big Five personality traits, and the extent of political interest as well as voting behavior, in a large, nationally representative sample in ...

    • Personality traits neuroticism and openness as well as early abnormal eye conditions as predictors of the occurrence of eye problems in adulthood 

      Cheng, Helen; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article, 2017)
      This study set out to examine the associations between psychological, biomedical and socio-demographic factors in childhood and adulthood associated with the occurrence of self-reported eye conditions in adulthood. In ...

    • Personality, ideology, and money attitudes as correlates of financial literacy and competence 

      Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study looked at whether demographics, religious beliefs, political orientation, personality traits, and money attitudes are correlates of financial capability, knowledge and distress. Over 3,500 British participants ...

    • A Perspective on the Potential of Chinese Business Schools: A Call for Greater Attention to Context, Differentiation, and Developing an Indigenous Model 

      Fey, Carl F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Chinese business schools have made impressive progress in improving their quality, but there is still room for improvement. However, they have improved largely by copying the traditional American model of business education ...

    • Petro populism 

      Matsen, Egil; Natvik, Gisle J.; Torvik, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We aim to explain petro populism|the excessive use of oil revenues to buy political support. To reap the full gains of natural resource income, politicians need to remain in o ce over time. Hence, even a rent-seeking ...

    • A Pharmacological Perspective on Technology-Induced Organised Immaturity: The Care-giving Role of the Arts 

      Alacovska, Ana; Booth, Peter; Fieseler, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Digital technologies induce organised immaturity by generating toxic sociotechnical conditions that lead us to delegate autonomous, individual, and responsible thoughts and actions to external technological systems. Aiming ...

    • Platform selection in the lab 

      Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Helland, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Emerging literature explores experimental platform selection games. These games con- verge rapidly on the superior platform under a wide range of conditions. We replicate the remarkable results of Hossain and Morgan ...

    • PLS-SEM’s most wanted guidance 

      Becker, Jan-Michael; Cheah, Jun-Hwa; Gholamzade, Rasoul; Ringle, Christian M.; Sarstedt, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Purpose – Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has attracted much attention from both methodological and applied researchers in various disciplines – also in hospitality management research. As ...

    • Police criminality and neutralization: an empirical study of court cases 

      Gottschalk, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The prevalence of police deviance is a much-debated statistic and one that is often rife with problems. Based on 61 convicted police officers in Norway, court cases are analyzed in this paper to identify relationships ...

    • Police leadership as a professional practice 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In this paper, we ascertain whether a practice-based approach can increase our knowledge of police leadership. This approach represents an alternative to normative management models which have dominated the management ...

    • Police misconduct and crime: bad apples or systems failure? 

      Gottschalk, Petter; Dean, Geoff; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      There is a debate in the research literature whether to view police misconduct and crime as acts of individuals perceived as 'rotten apples' or as an indication of systems failure in the police force. Based on an archival ...