Table 2 Study participant groupings of included studies

Business employees

Business leaders

Consumers

1. Aalbers et al. (2013)

1. Cordero et al. (2005)

1. Bolderdijk et al. (2018)

2. Aarikka-Stenroos et al. (2017)

2. Hosseini and Narayanan (2014)

2. Brandstätter (2011)

3. Amabile (1997)

3. Hsu (2009)

3. Costa et al. (2015)

4. Apergis and Pekka-Economou (2010)

4. Jermias (2007)

4. Duverger (2012)

5. Armstrong et al. (2018)

5. Liu and Chan (2017)

5. Füller et al. (2012)

6. Bergendahl et al. (2015)

6. Lukoschek et al. (2018)

6. Hasan et al. (2019)

7. Bessonova and Gonchar (2017)

7. Manimala et al. (2006)

7. Hopkins (2016)

8. Chen et al. (2019)

8. Naidoo and Sutherland (2016)

8. Kraft and Bausch (2018)

9. Chi et al. (2018)

9. Weisenfeld and Hauerwaas (2018)

9. Mc Fadden and Gorman (2016)

10. Curran and Walsworth (2014)

10. Wu et al. (2013)

10. Ng and Feldman (2013)

11. de Jong and Flowers (2018)

Teachers

11. Ozorhon and Oral (2017)

12. Delmas and Pekovic (2018)

1. Gorozidis and Papaioannou (2016)

12. Park et al. (2004)

13. Demircioglu and Audretsch (2017)

2. Lam et al. (2010)

13. Thapa et al. (2015)

14. Ederer and Manso (2013)

3. Messmann and Mulder (2014)

Astronauts

15. Fernandez and Pitts (2011)

Entrepreneurs

1. Brcic (2010)

16. Ford (1999)

1. Fischer et al. (2019)

Students

17. Galia (2008)

2. Griffin et al. (2009)

1. Bastian et al. (2018)

18. Gopal and College (2011)

3. Jiang and Thagard (2014)

2. Chis et al. (2018)

19. Hartmann (2006)

4. Shane et al. (2003)

3. Dietrich et al. (2016)

20. Lerner and Wulf (2018)

5. Susha et al. (2015)

4. Joy (2004)

21. Lettl (2007)

6. Todt et al. (2018)

5. Kung and Chao (2019)

22. Li and Yu (2018)

Academics

6. Mack and Landau (2015)

23. Maria Stock et al. (2017)

1. Kandiko (2013)

7. Pihie (2007)

24. Minarcine and Shaw (2016)

Librarians

8. Reznickova and Zepeda (2016)

25. Monge et al. (1992)

1. Koloniari et al. (2018)

26. Montani et al. (2014)

27. Öberg and Shih (2014)

28. Pihlajamaa (2017)

29. van Acker et al. (2018)

30. Vansteenkiste et al. (2005)

31. Wang et al. (2018)