The Role of Personality Temperament and Student Learning in Principles of Economics: Further Evidence.(Statistical Data Included)

Understanding economics is a process of gathering information, making sense of information, building conceptual models, and using these models to evaluate and analyze different situations and alternatives. Jungian psychological theory suggests that different personality temperaments prefer to receive and process information differently. My hypothesis is that personality type plays an important role in a student's understanding of economics, as measured by standard measures of student performance. More precisely, given the more analytical nature of economics, some personality types may succeed in economics more readily than do others. Furthermore, faculty personality type is ...

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