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As the majority of the research has focused on the association between the Big Five and political orientations in terms of social attitudes, or a combination of social and economic attitudes, this chapter highlights the research that examines the association between personality and economic attitudes, as somewhat different findings are sometimes uncovered.
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Cotterill, B.F. (2023). What about Economic Attitudes, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?. In: Personality Psychology, Ideology, and Voting Behavior: Beyond the Ballot. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39642-7_11
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