Narcissism and stock market investing: Correlates and consequences of cocksure investing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 816-821

  Foster, Joshua D ^a   Reidy, Dennis E ^b   Misra, Tiffany A ^a   Goff, Joshua S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Approach motivation; Avoidance motivation; Decision making; Economics; Motivation; Narcissism; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951675075     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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