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Rubrik 49 05 | LICHT GEDANKEN Contact Prof. Dr Michael Fritsch Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Carl-Zeiß-Straße 3, D-07743 Jena, Germany Phone: +49 36 41 9-43230 Email: m.fritsch@uni-jena.de www.wiwi.uni-jena.de Original publication: Von unterkühlten Norddeutschen, gemütlichen Süddeutschen und aufgeschlossenen Großstädtern [...], Psychologische Rundschau (2018), DOI: 10.1026/0033-3042/a000414 rance are more pronounced, and they are more resilient.« East Germans who move to West Germany also tend to be more open-minded, emotionally stab- le, conscientious and more extraverted than East Germans who stay in East Germany. 3,532 – 3,668 3,669 – 3,699 3,700 – 3,725 3,726 – 3,768 3,769 – 3,793 3,794 – 3,871 economically relevant information can be derived from the results. If we con- sider the personality traits in a region with an especially high number of bu- siness start-ups, for example, we can learn something about entrepreneurial personality structures.«  The study does not explain why the- se characteristics appear to different degrees in different regions. »We can perhaps see a correlation between a lower resilience and poorer economic regions; but it is not clear what came first«, explains Fritsch. »Despite this, BERLIN DRESDEN CHEMNITZ LEIPZIG MAGDEBURG HANNOVER DORTMUND KÖLN DÜSSELDORF KASSEL ERFURT NÜRNBERG STUTTGART MÜNCHEN FREIBURG IM BREISGAU SAARBRÜCKEN FRANKFURT AM MAIN BREMEN HAMBURG ROSTOCK Figure p. 48: A look at Jena. How typical are the inhabitants of the university city for East Germany? Economists have investigated the regional distribution of personality traits. The map of Germany shows the results for the personality characteristic »Openness to new experiences«: Gold values are high; blue values are low. A dataset of around 73,000 people was evaluated for the study.