{"id":1506,"date":"2025-03-10T20:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:12:01","slug":"rene-mottus-awarded-the-national-science-prize-in-the-field-of-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/rene-mottus-awarded-the-national-science-prize-in-the-field-of-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus Awarded the National Science Prize in the Field of Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-15.25.49-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-15.25.49-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-15.25.49-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-15.25.49-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/781\/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-15.25.49.png 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 6th, the government confirmed this year\u2019s laureates of the national science awards. The award for the best research work completed over the past four years in the field of social sciences was presented to Professor Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus from the University of Tartu and the University of Edinburgh for his research series titled\u00a0<em>\u201cMore Accurate Answers to the Big Questions in Personality Psychology.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus\u2019 world-class research holds significant scientific and practical value and has already gained considerable attention both in Estonia and internationally. Under M\u00f5ttus\u2019 leadership, personality traits associated with more than 250 occupations were mapped for the first time in the world, using questionnaire data from nearly 70,000 Estonian gene donors and their close relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the analysis results, a practical and publicly accessible tool was developed, allowing individuals to compare their personality traits with those of people working in various professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus\u2019 research has shown that although income, relationships, health, and recent life events play a role in people\u2019s satisfaction levels, their impact is smaller and shorter-lived than commonly believed. His studies highlight that life satisfaction is strongly linked to personality traits \u2014 in fact, nearly 80% of the variation in life satisfaction across the population can be attributed to personality characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to local media, Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus\u2019 research has been covered by\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Daily Mail<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em>. He has also contributed blog posts for\u00a0<em>Psychology Today<\/em>\u00a0and hosts a podcast on personality psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about all the laureates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hm.ee\/uudised\/teaduse-elutoopreemia-saab-leo-vohandu\">the Ministry of Education and Research\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6th, the government confirmed this year\u2019s laureates of the national science awards. The award for the best research work completed over the past four years in the field of social sciences was presented to Professor Ren\u00e9 M\u00f5ttus from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":1432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/estwell\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}