{
  "id": 15734746,
  "title": "A bigger paycheck tends to come with personality changes, according to a large-scale analysis of psychology research",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/a-bigger-paycheck-tends-to-come-with-personality-changes-according-to",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-20T10:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/a-bigger-paycheck-tends-to-come-with-personality-changes-according-to-a-large-scale-analysis-of-psychology-research/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A meta-analysis of 11 long-running studies covering up to 134,515 workers found that rising pay tended to precede small gains in conscientiousness and emotional stability, along with slight drops in agreeableness and extraversion.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}