🔍 March Finding of the Month: Does personality shape end-of-life planning?

New research by Valérie-Anne Ryser, Sarah Vilpert, & Jürgen Maurer (2026) sheds light on how personality traits shape end-of-life planning among older adults. Using SHARE data from 1,500+ Swiss adults (55+), they found:

📢 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀!

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Submit your abstracts now for the 3rd Joint ESS, SHARE & GGP User Meeting, which will take place on May 8th, 2026, in Vienna!
Submissions based on ESS and/or SHARE, and/or GGP data – are welcome.

📅 Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026

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This Thursday!
@vjdeimantas.bsky.social from @share-eric.bsky.social will talk about longitudinal #socialscience #data and its use for NGOs, journalists and policymakers. Register for the #Infra4NextGen webinar here: infra4nextgen.com/events/webin...

Home • SoGreen SoGreen is a European research collaboration integrating the four leading longitudinal social science surveys to track how people across Europe experience and respond to climate change. By adding a gr...

We are live!

The SoGreen project website is now online:
🔗 sogreen-project.eu

We invite you to explore, share, and follow along as we build knowledge to support just and evidence-based policies in the green transition in Europe.

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SHARE Autumn 2025 Meeting in Antwerp

From October 15 to 17, the SHARE Family is coming together – this time in Antwerp.
It’s always a pleasure to reconnect, exchange ideas, and discuss all things SHARE!

Thanks to our Belgian hosts for the warm welcome!

#SHAREdata #SHAREMeetings

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions

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Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻

When? November 20-21 November 🍂

For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career

Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨

Please circulate!

Finnish SHARE seminar is underway. @innalisko.bsky.social and Ismo Linnosmaa @uniuef.bsky.social on stage! Great presentations and now discussion about methodological issues! @share-fi.bsky.social @share-eric.bsky.social @vaestoliitto.bsky.social @invest-flagship.bsky.social

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification”

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How do people differ in pursuing their social lives? In a new paper at JPSP, lead by Cornelia Wrzus, we examined the affiliation motive (and other social traits) as moderators of how people dynamically regulate their social interactions. Across two studies with experience sampling and

📢 We are hiring!

SHARE is looking for a Research Associate (pre- or post-doc) to support our Research Data Center & Communication Team.

Deadline: 24.03.2025

Check our website for details: share-eric.eu/news-events/...

#Joboffer #Berlin #SHAREdata

The kick-off meeting of the SoGreen project funded by the European Commission under grant number: 101188188 is currently taking place in Brussels. The project is a joint effort of SHARE ERIC, ESS ERIC, GGP and GUIDE to investigate the social aspects of the green transition.

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More than happy to share that our manuscript investigating „Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction“ across 27 countries is now available online at Psychological Science (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)!
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The paper makes a case for the importance of personality in understanding singlehood and the need to support social structural arguments with data. A real joy to work with @juliastern.bsky.social @mdkraemer.bsky.social @drichter77.bsky.social and Alexander Schumacher on this paper.

Our working paper ”Genes and Equality of Opportunity: Lessons from a highly egalitarian country” now available in SocArXiv. Joint work with @tibaier.bsky.social and Hannu Lehti that has been cooking for a very long time… #sociology #demography @invest-flagship.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

@janierola.bsky.social So, is that your boat in the profile picture? I definitely should have taken you up on your offer a few years ago to visit Turku with the family for a sailing trip. ;)