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Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck
Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck
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Across the lifespan, personality changes in normative ways, but the source of such change remains ambiguous. Life events may be one impetus of such change, but strong selection effects into such events makes it unclear whether such change is driven by already existing differences (selection) between people or socialization following life events. In a preregistered study, we test socialization and selection effects of the Big 5 and life events using a large (N = 19,627) representative sample of Germans and 12 life events (e.g. marriage, retirement) from the GSOEP. Using propensity score matching and Bayesian multilevel growth curve models, we …
Development Of Social Exclusion Detection: Behavioral And Physiological Correlates, Hyesung Grace Hwang
Development Of Social Exclusion Detection: Behavioral And Physiological Correlates, Hyesung Grace Hwang
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The present work aimed to directly test the theoretical claims about how we as human detect social exclusion using both physiological and behavioral methods across different life stages. Because feeling excluded from a group is a common human experience that starts in early childhood, this basic human need to belong or connect with others is argued to be universal and thought to have an evolutionary basis. In fact, it has been argued that the ability to detect being excluded may be present from birth and detecting exclusion occurs rapidly with little cognitive processing. Study 1 tested whether this rapid detection …