Introduction
Personality research is robust and published across national and cross-national contexts. There are a plethora of articles, books, and monographs that deal with the broad subject of personality. There are several journals that focus entirely on publishing personality-based research – this includes many reputed journals such as Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Research in Personality, and Journal of Personality Assessment. Personality also happens to be a multidisciplinary area of research, with a lot of the research on it coming from anthropology, criminology, business administration, psychology, sociology, and education, among other disciplines.
There are several frameworks for studying and researching personality; however, the most prominent and popular one among the lot is the Big 5 Personality Type framework (e.g., Azucar et al. 2018; Holman and Hughes 2021; Judge et al. 2002; Wall...
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Simha, A., Parboteeah, K.P. (2022). Big 5 Personality Types and Willingness to Justify Unethical Behavior. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1299-1
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