Philipp Seegers
Maastricht University
10 Papers
28 Citations
Philipp Seegers is an academic researcher from Maastricht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Big Five personality traits & Agreeableness. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
The role of personality in the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of students in Germany during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
TL;DR: It is suggested that more agreeable individuals, in particular, tend to comply with governmental rules and recommendations to fight COVID-19, whereas less emotionally stable individuals tend to hoard supplies, feel insecure, and fear financial losses due to the crisis.
Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relation between Big Five personality traits and individuals' migration intentions among alternative destinations that vary in their culture distance, and found that openness positively and extraversion negatively relate to the willingness to move to culturally distant countries even when they control for geographic distance and economic differences between countries.
Differences in creativity across Art and STEM students: We are more alike than unalike
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined differences in creativity within and between: (a) General Thematic Areas (Art and Science); (b) Specific Science domains (STEM), and (c) Engineering micro-domains, for a total of 2277 students in German tertiary institutions.
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International Education and Economic Growth
TL;DR: This article derived conditions under which international education has a positive effect on economic growth, overall and in each specific country, and found that international student mobility increases steady state growth for both countries on average by 0.013 percentage points.
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Personality Traits, Migration Intentions, and Cultural Distance
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture using data collected from university students in Germany and found that extraversion and openness are positively associated with migration intentions, while agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability negatively relate to migration intentions.
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