Authors: Haijun Bao, Zeyi Cao, Yang Guo, Natalie Xiaoqi Liu, Yiju Zhang, Helen X. H. Bao
Year: 2026
Research line: Spatial personality
One-line summary
A meta-analysis of 36 regression studies using Big Five personality as regressors to predict geographically-aggregated outcomes, introducing a novel relative-importance metric (within-study trait β ÷ mean β across all five traits) that sidesteps the standard standardisation problem when dependent-variable means are not reported. Organises findings along two analytical axes — domain (economic / political / social) × scope (individual / societal).
Abstract
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